Nvidia CEO said they spent $10 Billon dollars on R&D for their new chip. What exactly does an R&D worker do all day? Where does this money go?

Question

How does a chip go from being an academic theory to a $10 billion R&D Project?

In: Technology

Answer 1

They do research math and science, i work at a big tech firm and many of the developers actually have received patents for their inventions, yes there is patents for hardware and software breakthroughs