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Or may be we are approaching a wall that is harder to climb than usual. With unlimited computing power we could render real time highly interactive super accur
by Pharaoh2 11y ago
Or may be we are approaching a wall that is harder to climb than usual.
With unlimited computing power we could render real time highly interactive super accurate simulations which takes months to render. But we can't because we don't have the computing power.
The truth is, we are hitting multiple wall at the same time. It's harder to shrink gates any further, it's harder to increase clock speed anymore and it's harder to dissipate the heat generated by the cpus. All the increase we are now getting are incremental not exponential and that is why we can run a current software on a 10 year old cpu, if the software is not optimized for multicore cpus.
- tim333 11y agoOr a bit of both. You have a point that the performance of a single core has stopped increasing so fast. On the other hand if people really wanted performance they could get high powered desk top computers but the trend has been more towards using phones. About the most processor intensive thing I do personally is edit video and even that works OK on my 2 year old phone.
- Pharaoh2 11y agoI have no idea what type of video editing you are doing but editing 2.7k60 video on my high end gpu accelerated desktop is a pain in the ass. The adoption of mobile phones as computing platform is a very different event. It allows use of computing in a very versatile manner. That is why it's usage exploded.