Kinda the same response to be honest, the chips are fast, in my contrived example the macbook neo runs on a binned iphone 16 chip with a broken core, yet it’s fine for most people.
When I was using computers in the late 90’s, the idea of a 10 year old computer was mental. My friend would be running windows 98 on his pentium 2, and if I had a 10 year old machine it would mean a machine from the goddam 80’s, it couldn’t run anything. The difference was night and day. Now, I use a desktop PC that I built 9 years ago, intel i5, nvidia 1080ti, and it runs honestly just fine for just about everything. Wasn’t even anywhere near the top of the range back then, apart from the graphics card it was practically budget.
We’re alright. Computers are so fast now. This is my hot take of the century maybe, but the latest and greatest is always expensive and computers have honestly almost never been so affordable performance to dollar, apart from the recent ram spikes.
I am talking about electronic NON-COMPUTER devices that use computer CHIPS.
They are not going to recycle an old graphics card to build a weather radar, and it doesn’t matter how fast computers were 10 years ago when building a new elevator.
I’m saying that every modern everything needs those chips and they’re using them only for one industry, and every other industry, including but not limited to computers, is heavily impacted by that.
What about the literally everything else I mentioned though? Those semiconductors are in everything, not just personal computers and gaming consoles.
Kinda the same response to be honest, the chips are fast, in my contrived example the macbook neo runs on a binned iphone 16 chip with a broken core, yet it’s fine for most people.
When I was using computers in the late 90’s, the idea of a 10 year old computer was mental. My friend would be running windows 98 on his pentium 2, and if I had a 10 year old machine it would mean a machine from the goddam 80’s, it couldn’t run anything. The difference was night and day. Now, I use a desktop PC that I built 9 years ago, intel i5, nvidia 1080ti, and it runs honestly just fine for just about everything. Wasn’t even anywhere near the top of the range back then, apart from the graphics card it was practically budget.
We’re alright. Computers are so fast now. This is my hot take of the century maybe, but the latest and greatest is always expensive and computers have honestly almost never been so affordable performance to dollar, apart from the recent ram spikes.
I wouldn’t sweat it so much.
I. Am. Not. Talking. About. Personal. Computers.
I am talking about electronic NON-COMPUTER devices that use computer CHIPS.
They are not going to recycle an old graphics card to build a weather radar, and it doesn’t matter how fast computers were 10 years ago when building a new elevator.
I’m saying that every modern everything needs those chips and they’re using them only for one industry, and every other industry, including but not limited to computers, is heavily impacted by that.