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I don't see how GPU factories could be running in the event of war "in such a scale to drive silicon prices up". Unless you mean that supply will be low and peo

I don't see how GPU factories could be running in the event of war "in such a scale to drive silicon prices up". Unless you mean that supply will be low and people scavanging TI calculators for processors to make boxes playing Tetris and Space Invaders.

alganet 1y ago
Why not? This is the exact model in which WWII operated. Car and plane supply chains were practically nationalized to support the military industry. If drones, surveillance, satellites become the main war tech, they'll all use silicon, and things will be fully nationalized. We already have all sorts of hints of this. Doesn't need a genius to predict that it could be what happens to these industries. The balance with food and fuel is more delicate though. A war with drones, satellites and surveillance is not like WWII, there's a commercial aspect to it. If you put it on paper, food and fuel project more power and thus, can move more money. Any public crisis can make people forget about GPUs and jeopardize the process of nationalization that is currently being implemented, which still depends on relatively peaceful international trade.
- newsclues 1y ago
  CPU and GPU compute will be needed for military use processing the vast data from all sorts of sensors. Think about data centres crunching satellite imagery for trenches, fortifications and vehicles.
  - alganet 1y ago
    > satellite imagery for trenches, fortifications and vehicles Dude, you're describing the 80s. We're in 2025. GPUs will be used for automated surveillance, espionage, brainwashing and market manipulation. At least that's what the current batch of technologies implies. The only thing stopping this from becoming a full dystopia is that delicate balance with food and fuel I mentioned earlier. It has become pretty obvious that entire wealthy nations can starve if they make the wrong move. Turns out GPUs cannot produce calories, and there's a limit to how much of a market you can manipulate to produce calories for you.
    - newsclues 1y ago
      2025 Ukraine war. There are satellites and ISR platforms taking images and data and data centres are processing that information into actionable targets.
- rightbyte 1y ago
  > Why not? Bombs that fly between continents or are launched from submarines for any "big scale" war.
  - alganet 1y ago
    I don't see how this is connected to what you said before.
    - rightbyte 1y ago
      My point is that GPU factories are big static targets with sensitive supply chains and thus have no strategic importance in being so easy to distrupt.
      - alganet 1y ago
        So are airplane and car factories. I already explained all of this, what keeps the supply chain together, and what their strategic value is.
        rightbyte 1y ago
        I have no clue if we agree with eachother or not?

alganet 1y ago

Why not? This is the exact model in which WWII operated. Car and plane supply chains were practically nationalized to support the military industry. If drones, surveillance, satellites become the main war tech, they'll all use silicon, and things will be fully nationalized. We already have all sorts of hints of this. Doesn't need a genius to predict that it could be what happens to these industries. The balance with food and fuel is more delicate though. A war with drones, satellites and surveillance is not like WWII, there's a commercial aspect to it. If you put it on paper, food and fuel project more power and thus, can move more money. Any public crisis can make people forget about GPUs and jeopardize the process of nationalization that is currently being implemented, which still depends on relatively peaceful international trade.

newsclues 1y ago
CPU and GPU compute will be needed for military use processing the vast data from all sorts of sensors. Think about data centres crunching satellite imagery for trenches, fortifications and vehicles.
- alganet 1y ago
  > satellite imagery for trenches, fortifications and vehicles Dude, you're describing the 80s. We're in 2025. GPUs will be used for automated surveillance, espionage, brainwashing and market manipulation. At least that's what the current batch of technologies implies. The only thing stopping this from becoming a full dystopia is that delicate balance with food and fuel I mentioned earlier. It has become pretty obvious that entire wealthy nations can starve if they make the wrong move. Turns out GPUs cannot produce calories, and there's a limit to how much of a market you can manipulate to produce calories for you.
  - newsclues 1y ago
    2025 Ukraine war. There are satellites and ISR platforms taking images and data and data centres are processing that information into actionable targets.
rightbyte 1y ago
> Why not? Bombs that fly between continents or are launched from submarines for any "big scale" war.
- alganet 1y ago
  I don't see how this is connected to what you said before.
  - rightbyte 1y ago
    My point is that GPU factories are big static targets with sensitive supply chains and thus have no strategic importance in being so easy to distrupt.
    - alganet 1y ago
      So are airplane and car factories. I already explained all of this, what keeps the supply chain together, and what their strategic value is.
      - rightbyte 1y ago
        I have no clue if we agree with eachother or not?