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Re:What Comes After the Roomba? by GlenTheMachine on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:33PM (#18296627)
My first response would be that prices will always equilibrate such that complicated machines are always expensive relative to income.

Except for microprocessors. But microprocessors are deeply weird, economically.

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Re:What Comes After the Roomba? by rusticpenn on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:59AM (#18299022)
The foundries operate at very low margins, They need atleast 5 years to get the money back. I think it was a race to lower costs as there is no significant change in quality of chips between taiwanese foundaries or former german foundaries.
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Re:What Comes After the Roomba? by pickdenis on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @06:14PM (#18296931)
Nanotechnology must be the answer, then.
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