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

Honestly, R&D is everything. It’s Researching & Developing new technology. An ‘r&d worker’ could be one of the technicians working on the lasers, or another working in metallurgy to find new or better materials to cut at the tiniest of scales, a third team writing experimental code. It’s a big umbrella term, $10B in R&D is $300M here, $20M, there, $100,000 somewhere else.