Of all companies, though, Microsoft is one of the few who could easily afford to sink a few billion into starting in-house chip production.
And even if they only ever produce chips for their own products, they’ll still probably come out ahead in the long run, because of all the money they’ll save on not paying inflated prices for others’ chips to use in Microsoft hardware.
That ‘in the long run’ part is the problem, though. Corps can never see beyond the next quarterly earnings report. An investment that will take years to pay off … that’s just out of the question.
Try decades… Chip fabs take like 5-7 years just to get running and then double that to recoup. No company is going to gamble on a possibility 15 year investment for a very obvious bubble.
Of all companies, though, Microsoft is one of the few who could easily afford to sink a few billion into starting in-house chip production.
And even if they only ever produce chips for their own products, they’ll still probably come out ahead in the long run, because of all the money they’ll save on not paying inflated prices for others’ chips to use in Microsoft hardware.
That ‘in the long run’ part is the problem, though. Corps can never see beyond the next quarterly earnings report. An investment that will take years to pay off … that’s just out of the question.
Try decades… Chip fabs take like 5-7 years just to get running and then double that to recoup. No company is going to gamble on a possibility 15 year investment for a very obvious bubble.