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This needs to be seen in the broader context of peak everything and peak Moore's law in particular. Windows 11 can't run on Skylake from 2016, Windows 7 can't
by bullen 5y ago
This needs to be seen in the broader context of peak everything and peak Moore's law in particular.
Windows 11 can't run on Skylake from 2016, Windows 7 can't run on Kabylake from 2017.
The model is broken because it is based on eternal growth, the lightbulb needs to break after 1000 hours!
So when the foundation released the 4th version at 2 Gflops/W it was the end of the model. Apples M1 pushes this to 2.5 Gflops/W at 5x the density, it's game over!
Now we need to build open software on this hardware without expecting more performance for free.
This is the end but also only the beginning because now you don't have to chase the ghost of eternal progress, you know the playing field and it is available to almost everyone!
So stop waisting your time on giving it to someone else and build something for eternity?
For me this means going back to basics: HTTP, DNS, SMTP, OpenGL (ES) 3 and sticking with those in the face of "progress"!