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Nothing would really happen. We’d keep using 2 year old processors from Intel, and pay more for them. The GPUs, whose price is high because of cryptocurrency, w

Nothing would really happen. We’d keep using 2 year old processors from Intel, and pay more for them. The GPUs, whose price is high because of cryptocurrency, will not be missed. These auto manufacturers could pay a little more for a general purpose CPU instead of ASICs.

post_break 6y ago
The stock market would crash guaranteed if Apple had no inventory of phones. AMD no gpus or cpus, etc. It wouldn't just be like oh sorry out of stock. It would touch every aspect of your life.
- slaw 6y ago
  FED could just print even more money to pump stock market.
jnwatson 6y ago
Auto manufacturers can't just put in a general purpose CPU. Embedded CPUs have functionality general purpose CPUs don't have. Not to mention it would take months to design new hardware and write new software. The chips being put into cars today were selected at least 5 years ago.
- gscott 6y ago
  One Raspberry Pi in every car and problem solved.
  - Gibbon1 6y ago
    From an industrial/automotive/aerospace standpoint Raspberry Pi's are hot garbage.
    - herewulf 6y ago
      Granted it's just the Raspberry Pi compute module, but the existence of the Revolution Pi[1] would seem to counter your point. [1]: https://revolution.kunbus.com https://revolution.kunbus.com
      - Gibbon1 6y ago
        Is it going to work when the car it's in has been sitting in the sun in Arizona?
  - adamparsons 6y ago
    I tried this years ago. Lets just say cars have a very unique set of constraints that general purpose dev boards will not survive.
    - herewulf 6y ago
      I'd be interested to hear more about these constraints.
- Matthias247 6y ago
  As someone having worked in the automative industry, I can confirm the latter part. It takes about 3-5 years from the start of a new design over going through all qualifications up to shipping a car with it. Even switching to a mostly compatible chip (same ISA, same pinout, etc) will take more than 1 year.

post_break 6y ago

The stock market would crash guaranteed if Apple had no inventory of phones. AMD no gpus or cpus, etc. It wouldn't just be like oh sorry out of stock. It would touch every aspect of your life.

slaw 6y ago
FED could just print even more money to pump stock market.

jnwatson 6y ago

Auto manufacturers can't just put in a general purpose CPU. Embedded CPUs have functionality general purpose CPUs don't have. Not to mention it would take months to design new hardware and write new software. The chips being put into cars today were selected at least 5 years ago.

gscott 6y ago
One Raspberry Pi in every car and problem solved.
- Gibbon1 6y ago
  From an industrial/automotive/aerospace standpoint Raspberry Pi's are hot garbage.
  - herewulf 6y ago
    Granted it's just the Raspberry Pi compute module, but the existence of the Revolution Pi[1] would seem to counter your point. [1]: https://revolution.kunbus.com https://revolution.kunbus.com
    - Gibbon1 6y ago
      Is it going to work when the car it's in has been sitting in the sun in Arizona?
- adamparsons 6y ago
  I tried this years ago. Lets just say cars have a very unique set of constraints that general purpose dev boards will not survive.
  - herewulf 6y ago
    I'd be interested to hear more about these constraints.
Matthias247 6y ago
As someone having worked in the automative industry, I can confirm the latter part. It takes about 3-5 years from the start of a new design over going through all qualifications up to shipping a car with it. Even switching to a mostly compatible chip (same ISA, same pinout, etc) will take more than 1 year.