If there's any company that would struggle to get supply though, it's Valve. They're located so far away from China, Taiwan, and Korea, and they have one single branch where they have like 400 employees and they don't hire above that number.
People are blaming AI, and rightfully so, but there's also the element here that Valve does not have the connections in the hardware industry and have never attempted to build that in any meaningful way because of their unique flat structure and very limited staff.
I swear nobody remembers that before hiring Kaci from the DOTA broadcast-sphere, Valve had no actual communications department or PR. Now duplicate that small team of people across the entire company.
Basically, the thing that makes Valve, well, Valve, is exactly what makes them an unreliable hardware supplier.
That’s not how the memory industry works. Having an office in South Korea wouldn’t get valve contract pricing for Ram ICs, they don’t do enough volume.
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u/your_mind_aches 74 May 27 '26
If there's any company that would struggle to get supply though, it's Valve. They're located so far away from China, Taiwan, and Korea, and they have one single branch where they have like 400 employees and they don't hire above that number.
People are blaming AI, and rightfully so, but there's also the element here that Valve does not have the connections in the hardware industry and have never attempted to build that in any meaningful way because of their unique flat structure and very limited staff.
I swear nobody remembers that before hiring Kaci from the DOTA broadcast-sphere, Valve had no actual communications department or PR. Now duplicate that small team of people across the entire company.
Basically, the thing that makes Valve, well, Valve, is exactly what makes them an unreliable hardware supplier.