Valve don't seem to be able to catch a break with their hardware releases - as Qualcomm reportedly plan to raise prices a lot.
  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    When will this AI bubble pop?

    Actually, I’m not even sure the AI bubble popping will change hardware prices, unless the market is suddenly flooded with hardware that has to be sold when companies go bankrupt and datacenters have to be emptied.

  • thethrilloftime69@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    This was the only hardware from Valve that I was actually interested in. Whatever the price is, I’m sure it wasn’t going to be good, but now it’s going to be horrendous.

    • Midnitte@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      9 hours ago

      If theres one good thing here, its that Valve has been receiving shipments (and may very well have price lock contracts) already

      • tacosanonymous@mander.xyzEnglish
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        8 hours ago

        I am pretty sure they openly said they don’t get contracts. They get told what they have to pay for whatever quantity they’re offered. If they don’t accept, they don’t hear from that seller ever again.

    • Creat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      Even with the kind of money he has, he can’t just do that. It takes stupid amount of time to actually get a chip out of a fab after the build starts (let alone after just planning starts).

      • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        oh, I know he can’t, the sheer complexity of tech hardware is not reasonable to set up in any reasonable time… But it seems like something Valve would try to do anyway.

      • ericwdhs@discuss.onlineEnglish
        22·
        13 hours ago

        Yeah, there’s a reason only a handful of companies on the planet even try it. On top of the time and technology requirements, there’s also a massive patent minefield to navigate. Qualcomm is something like 20 times bigger than Valve with chips as their entire business model, and even they’re still not big enough. Qualcomm contracts TMSC and Samsung to use their fabs.

        Edit: added a bit…

        • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          9 minutes ago

          Also it’s not as if chips alone went insanely up beacuse the manufacturing equipment did so as well. And if you’re building fabs, you’re not gonna do it in the US or Europe - for a reason. Evan Apple gave in to “Designed in California”.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
    14·
    12 hours ago

    Hopefully they’ll finally release this thing before things get even worse. Still determined to get one, but I know I won’t like the price.

    I wonder if they could do a hardware revision at some point that has all the standalone capabilities stripped out. They’ve really focused on the streaming capabilities rather than the standalone aspect in their marketing anyway. So I think a version without any storage and just enough power to stream from a PC could be a way more feasible product in the current market.