These comments baffle me. Doesn't the majority of HN work in the industry? Clearly the driving factor regarding IO at this point is machine learning and network

These comments baffle me. Doesn't the majority of HN work in the industry? Clearly the driving factor regarding IO at this point is machine learning and networking for cloud applications, not gaming. Desktop/workstation (e.g. gaming) performance hasn't been driving the industry for easily 5 years now. Intel and AMD both simply use their high performance desktop offerings as proofs for their server solutions, which typically come a few months later.