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Bleeding edge tech usually starts off very expensive and tends to get cheaper as the manufacturing capacity increases, hardly news worthy.

• CoastalCoder 4y ago
  Even if this was generally predictable, the exact timing may not be. I was glad for the information.
• hardware2win 4y ago
  Arent Intel Optane bleeding edge?
• tzs 4y ago
  ...and then, at least with RAM in my experience, after that it gets expensive again when no new computers have used that particular RAM for a few years.
• hinkley 4y ago
  Quality Control and payback periods are two situations where this becomes very obvious if you think about it, but is not obvious to most comsumers. When you get the factory working well enough that you make a gross profit, you can scale up. The. You reduce waste over time by making little tweaks, and your margins go up a little. But then you need to pay off the equipment, and the research costs, and nobody wants to taper that off in a long tail because what’s the point in making a product you make no money on the entire time, or leaving yourself open for the competition introducing a new product you can’t compete with because you don’t have money saved up for R&D? So you pay off your loans and refill your war chest and everything after that is gravy. If you’re the first in your industry to get there, you can turn the crews on the competition by lowering your prices first. Or don’t and get sued for price fixing. Dropping the price by 3% isn’t going to get anyone to take a chance on your product instead of someone else’s. You’ve got to do something more dramatic than that. And then you might find out you’re not the first, because everyone else happily matches or exceeds your price drop.
• stjohnswarts 4y ago
  It's newsworthy if you were on the fence waiting for a decent price drop.