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

You should check out this video (https://youtu.be/2ehSCWoaOqQ?si=Ku2IFkAixeHPGaZl) of a foundry tour. That’s where they make chips.

TL;DR it is a 20 minute video (edited) of walking around highly specialized machines that do one thing and cost 20 million a pop.