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Re:To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware by jdsully on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:49PM (#21841118)
This is the age of vertical integration in technology. Truly astounding to see, and not something we've witnessed much of historically.

Personally I think a lot of it is being driven by the comoditization of advanced chip fabrication. Now with TSMC you can actually have better manufacturing capabilities than Intel. A situation we've not been in for over 30 years.

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Re:To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware by artyomavanesov on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:27PM (#21841281)
> Personally I think a lot of it is being driven by the commoditization of advanced chip fabrication.

That's an interesting perspective. With mobile device chip manufacturing being modularized, Facebook is able to integrate forward with the end user by combining software (i.e. their portfolio of apps) with consumer electronics.

Aggregation theory at work: https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/

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Re:To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware by aaronblohowiak on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:45AM (#21842158)
> not something we've witnessed much of historically.

Goes in cycles. Xerox, hp, ibm

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