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caffeinade on 09 March 2018
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JEMC said:
caffeinade said:

"Now there's pretty much no project in the hardware space that we wouldn't be comfortable taking on. We can design chips if we need to, we can do industrial design, and so on. So that added to that."
Valve designed chips, hmm.
I'd love to see that.

I know you aren't... but please confirm me that you're not thinking about something too complex like a CPU or GPU.

Valve has around 300 employees.
I don't think Valve could enter the GPU / CPU market given their current size.
Unless they either: expand the company, or collaborate with an established designer (AMD, Nvidia, Intel, etc): I can't see them designing a complex CPU or GPU.

Controllers and co-processors should be a reachable target.
Stuff like their VR base-stations and controllers could benefit from custom hardware.