Valve Admits That it Didn’t Have Bargaining Power With RAM Companies for Steam Machine
Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais revealed that the high cost of the Steam Machine was partly due to a lack of bargaining power with memory manufacturers. These companies dictated prices with no room for negotiation, a situation exacerbated by the demand from AI data centers. Griffais also explained Valve's commitment to an open PC ecosystem, which prevented them from subsidizing the hardware cost like a console.
- Entities
- Company: Crucial
- Company: Valve
- Company: SK Hynix
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence
- Person: Pierre-Loup Griffais
- Company: OpenAI
- Game: Steam Machine
- Topic: Computer Hardware
- Company: Samsung
- Company: Anthropic
- Topic: Supply Chain
- Topic: Hardware Pricing
- Company: Google
- Company: NVIDIA
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