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I think it would be quite bad actually in opportunity cost. The performance per watt alone would represent a huge energy savings. New chips enable new applicati

I think it would be quite bad actually in opportunity cost. The performance per watt alone would represent a huge energy savings. New chips enable new applications and no new chips would mean that the entire nonlinear economic engine of tech industry would sunset in a few years once every existing application catches up to state of the art. Computationally heavy applications like ML would remain locked in the high tower of large organizations and out of the hands of individuals. VR and AR would probably never arrive to the mainstream.

prng2021 4y ago
I think that’s an illusion. The last 50 years of modern computing have proven without a doubt that global energy consumption will far outpace improvements in performance/watt that come with each generation of cpus. Any improvement in energy usage is wiped out by more kinds of and ever faster gadgets: Desktop computers followed by mobile phones, every possible sized tablet screen, voice assistance speakers, voice assistance speakers with screens, smart watches, smart lights, smart vacuum cleaners, drones, and so on. And with all these smart devices, we have more and more data, which we then need AI to make sense/use of in order to develop new or more useful things. It’s a never ending cycle. VR and AR never arriving to the mainstream would possibly be true. But our lives are already great today without that.