Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group...
by adwn on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:39AM
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> The more universally applicable a machine is, the more expensive it may be and possibly even priced against the highest value tasks it can do.
It's even worse: The more universally applicable a machine is, the more expensive its outputs are, because it is less efficient. Have you seen an aluminum can lid stamping machine? [1] It can only produce one thing, but that thing is incredibly cheap on account of the machine producing tens of thousands of items per hour.
It's even worse: The more universally applicable a machine is, the more expensive its outputs are, because it is less efficient. Have you seen an aluminum can lid stamping machine? [1] It can only produce one thing, but that thing is incredibly cheap on account of the machine producing tens of thousands of items per hour.
[1] That's probably not its official name...