How does a chip go from being an academic theory to a $10 billion R&D Project?
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Remember R&D is pretty broad… That includes all salaries, benefits for the employees, the office space they work in, the massive equipment they use, all the hardware/software, etc.
And I’d also like to point out that I doubt it’s $10 billion *only* on this chip. A lot of those people, that equipment, that research, was also accruing to other projects within the company too.
When we hear “research and development” we often think of only folks in a lab working on cutting edge stuff. But almost any engineer at all in a tech company is considered to be part of R&D.
For example, someone at Reddit working on a bug in their text formatting tool is part of their R&D team, even if they spend 3 days trying to figure out why the ‘bold’ function doesn’t work in some weird circumstance.
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