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More likely people will retain their current devices for longer and wait this whole thing out - there's less reason to upgrade than there was a decade ago. Pro
by Tade0 10mo ago
More likely people will retain their current devices for longer and wait this whole thing out - there's less reason to upgrade than there was a decade ago.
Processing power increases have noticeably plateaued, with e.g. Nvidia GPUs steadily increasing in TDP to make up for there not being enough gains from updated process nodes. The RTX 5080 is rated at 67% higher TDP than the RTX 2080, but you don't see such an increase throughout most of the 2010s, so before the latter was released.
- WhyNotHugo 10mo ago> More likely people will retain their current devices for longer and wait this whole thing out Wait it out? The rich have realised that they can buy the entire stock of computing power and deprive the common folk of it, renting it to them instead. In practical terms, they have infinite resources. Definitely enough to long outlast our lifetimes and the next generation and the next. We can’t “wait out” until they run out of money.
- lenkite 10mo agoThey never run out of "their" money either. Can keep borrowing until eye-watering values are breached, making out like bandits and then run to the govt for a bailout when the bubble bursts.
- jacekm 10mo agoSomething or someone will eventually fill the void. Chinese are trying to manufacture GPUs, they are very far from what Nvidia can offer, but they'll slowly get there. As for RAM - the new factories are being built and will hopefully become operational in 2028.