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Because the electric car market is tanking maybe? Reminds me of when Apple bought a Cray computer that they had absolutely no use for. Musk likely feels that X.
by strangattractor 2y ago
Because the electric car market is tanking maybe? Reminds me of when Apple bought a Cray computer that they had absolutely no use for. Musk likely feels that X.com is not losing money fast enough. One of the most efficient ways to burn money is to place mindless bets on incredibly expensive technologies without having a true purpose.
- basementcat 2y agoApple bought the Cray to run simulation and verification of their Scorpius processor. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21897370 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21897370
- strangattractor 2y agoYes - an how did that benefit Apple at the time? You could take all the computers built with a Scorpius processor and put them in your hand. Not even a hand because there were none. There is a great deal more to adopting a CPU than simply it works. There needs to be tools, a foundry, scale to reduce cost. It was that type of thinking that almost destroyed Apple in the late 80s early 90s. Sometimes Engineers think that just because something is "great" engineering it is automatically a great product. Sadly Microsoft proved that thinking to be incorrect.