How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development

Re:How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development by MichaelZuo on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @08:28AM (#44875392)

Do you not understand what the word manufacture means?

It literally doesn’t matter what the “operational lifetime” or “expected return” is if it costs 200% more to manufacture for only 2% improvements.

It won’t ever get far enough in the design process for it to even be an issue.

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Re:How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development by XorNot on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @10:31AM (#44876694)

Setting aside that you pulled that number out of your ass to argue against it, if something produces 400X it's purchase cost over it's operational life time, a 2% improvement takes that to 408X it's purchase cost for only a 2X increase in initial outlay, meaning it pays for itself 4 fold.

But very few innovations have that sort of effect on manufacturing cost to start with.

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Re:How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development by MichaelZuo on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @10:50AM (#44876975)

This doesn’t make sense as a reply.

How is your own opinion, on another user’s example number, even relevant enough to be “setting aside” in the first place?

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