My information is probably less out-of-date than yours, but yeah, they’re probably getting hit as well, just not as hard.
Yeah, the specific RAM shortage is affecting everyone.
Industry experience.
Apple has been overall getting the sweetest deals from chip vendors for quite a while now.
On the scale of all tech companies, Valve is very low down. Even Big Players like Amazon have trouble getting the best deals; if you’re not Apple or nVidia, you get to just go fuck yourself.
Don’t want to get left behind.
I can speak from actual industry experience: even major players in the hardware space have significant trouble sourcing the quantities they want if their names don’t start with “Samsu” or “App” - and sometimes, even then.
Well, that’ll accomplish one of the goals.
That’s the long-term goal, and I’m fully on board, but how can we work within the system to accomplish this in a five-year timeline?
Honestly, no. Even Apple had to start making their own chips.
To clarify, I’m speaking with decades of industry experience.
Were you trying to say “woe?”
This is exactly the point I was making in my comment. It’s basically impossible to find a supplier that will guarantee a decade lifespan for a nontrivial IC.
Maybe wait a tick until iFixit (or any other reputable source) blesses them.
I’m confident that third-party batteries will come along in short order. I remember the early days when it took a week of research to find a “compatible” SSD replacement; a year later, scads of SKUs were being marketed as such, and at better prices.
How do we get silicon manufacturers to get on board with this concept?
I don’t have a garbage truck. I let the city handle that.
Topologically, we’re just meat donuts
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Yeah, I was really confused when I followed the link. I was expecting astronomy, not clean energy. Still cool, just not the right words.