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There were supposedly 400,000 people behind Apollo 11. I bet you could make some pretty high quality, well crafted stuff today as well, if you had nearly half a
by ip26 2y ago
There were supposedly 400,000 people behind Apollo 11. I bet you could make some pretty high quality, well crafted stuff today as well, if you had nearly half a million people devoting their lives to building one thing.
Nvidia: 26,000 people
TSMC: 73,000
Intel: 124,000
AMD: 25,000
Qualcomm: 50,000
ASML: 42,000
So, in terms of manpower, the entire global semiconductor industry might be comparable scale.
- fy20 2y agoMaybe a better comparison is SpaceX. In 2022 they had around 12,000 people.
- seb1204 2y agoAt least space X is producing something. How useful their products are is a subject of debate but in my opinion much higher ranked than meeta who die yet another screen glueing, mind numbing, radicalising add network. What has meta ever done for us?
- Intralexical 2y agoWhat would it take to convince Meta to pivot into aqueduct-building?
- bombcar 2y agoWith about 400,000 people you could make … Target, Home Depot, or United Healthcare.