sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoMicrosoft doesn't know what to do about the memory pricing crisis Microsoft is causingwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square78linkfedilinkarrow-up1607arrow-down15
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minus-squareOwOarchist@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·6 days ago A lot of lithography equipment for the top tier stuff is made by 1 supplier So maybe invest in that and become another top-tier supplier of lithography equipment?
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·6 days agoOr just build hardware that’s easier to make I would gladly go back to 2012-era hardware if it meant I could afford it and people maintained software for it
minus-squareHolytimes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoThat’s about as hard to do as making the chips in the first place… So that also would take 10+ years of r&d and build up. There’s a reason it’s taken China literally decades to catch up with home grown alteratives and they still aren’t entirely there.
So maybe invest in that and become another top-tier supplier of lithography equipment?
Or just build hardware that’s easier to make
I would gladly go back to 2012-era hardware if it meant I could afford it and people maintained software for it
That’s about as hard to do as making the chips in the first place… So that also would take 10+ years of r&d and build up.
There’s a reason it’s taken China literally decades to catch up with home grown alteratives and they still aren’t entirely there.