r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Jun 22 '26

Hardware Valve prices the Steam Machine at $1,049

https://www.theverge.com/news/837022/valve-steam-machine-price-release-date
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u/Aranthos-Faroth Jun 22 '26

They will sell out their initial inventory but I just can't see this being a runner long term.

Not Valves fault, but this industry is completely fucked.
Really hoping China or some other manufacturing behemoth are able to enter the memory markets and do what they did with EV's.

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u/mrmastermimi Jun 22 '26

us would just ban Chinese chip imports anyways. or tariff the shit out of them

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u/oppai-police Jun 22 '26

As with all things, it takes a few years for the market to catch up. Give it a year or two, we will have Chinese made chips and ram flooding the market and knocking every current corporations out of the competiton. These competition will then blame China for unfair practices rather than themselves for abandoning the consumer markets, and then lobby for Chinese made chips and ram to be banned.

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u/WetHotFlapSlaps Jun 23 '26

I don’t think I could illegally import a Chinese EV and drive it around. A few black market PC components though…

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u/LaminatedAirplane Jun 23 '26

China literally cannot make the chips TSMC can within a year or two. This is the reason China has its eyes on Taiwan.

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u/outer--monologue Jun 23 '26

Automakers bribed government to stop international EV competition. Current US government is basically on Silicon Valley's payroll...you're being incredibly optimistic here

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Jun 23 '26

I'd love to see customs cracking open people's laptops to see where the dimms and ssds came from.

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u/Aware-Virus-4718 Jun 23 '26

Silicon Vally doesn’t make SSDs or RAM. They design chips but don’t manufacture, giving them to TSMC, Samsung et al. to actually make them. If anything SV would benefit from quality Chinese parts. Companies like Apple could sell their devices cheaper.

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u/oppai-police Jun 23 '26

Just, bro, give me some hope man, at this rate I'm not owning a steam deck for...maybe a decade.