>Yet Arm’s current model captures only a sliver of the value it creates.
No, they capture exactly the value they create.
As a long time (40 years) subscriber to The Economist, I expect better of them.
No, they capture exactly the value they create.
As a long time (40 years) subscriber to The Economist, I expect better of them.
I think in this case semantics matter.
But false about my meaning, which was precisely the opposite of "a euphemistic way to describe pushing producer surplus towards 100% and consumer surplus to 0%"
My original comment "They capture exactly the value they create" was my (failed) attempt to restate the basic premise of capitalism, that profits tend towards zero, using the words at play in this discussion.
See airlines who create enormous value, but remain terrible businesses. I think it remains to be seen if the AI companies can really capture the value being created as well.
Analogous to discussion 3 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994869#46995258
We're fast approaching 1 trillion Arm CPUs manufactured - because it was a good design for a good price.
No doubt unprecedented for something so complex to be produced in such volume. I predict that nothing else will ever achieve such scale.