The silver lining is that hardware performance gains have been so minor from generation to generation that upgrading isn’t really that important anymore. Like if i upgrade from next generation equivalent GPU it would give like 8% more fps… and it costs like 1,5k… No thanks.
Probably also a big reason why it’s less profitable - consumers are upgrading more and more slowly. In part because of the performance gains being smaller, in part because a lot of components are getting more expensive. In that way it’s a self fulfilling prophecy.
You used to get a fairly significant upgrade ever few years for about the same cost as the old hardware. Transistors aren’t really getting much smaller anymore, so more performance needs a bigger die and costs more money.
Transistor size downscaling is pretty much done. Also mosfets can’t much improve in this race anymore. We would need a new computing paradigm to see manufacturing cost reductions or major performance leaps. For consumers thats still years away.
The silver lining is that hardware performance gains have been so minor from generation to generation that upgrading isn’t really that important anymore. Like if i upgrade from next generation equivalent GPU it would give like 8% more fps… and it costs like 1,5k… No thanks.
Probably also a big reason why it’s less profitable - consumers are upgrading more and more slowly. In part because of the performance gains being smaller, in part because a lot of components are getting more expensive. In that way it’s a self fulfilling prophecy.
You used to get a fairly significant upgrade ever few years for about the same cost as the old hardware. Transistors aren’t really getting much smaller anymore, so more performance needs a bigger die and costs more money.
Is Moore’s Law being resurrected?
Transistor size downscaling is pretty much done. Also mosfets can’t much improve in this race anymore. We would need a new computing paradigm to see manufacturing cost reductions or major performance leaps. For consumers thats still years away.