Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts

fieryhamster@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They mention his tariffs, but it’s also a bigger issue that has to do with the laws of physics hitting economics.

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  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We’ve been up against the 5Ghz thermal wall for over a decade. We can keep adding cores but we need significantly improved design (less nanometers) for these gains - and these are now running up against another wall, namely quantum tunneling which begins being a problem at around the nanometer scale.

    I assume only a radically different architecture (light instead of electricity?) will be able to smash these barriers.

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• Goronmon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The lack of price drops aren’t really caused by tariffs up to this point.

  Tariffs will be responsible for price increases however.

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This was going to happen whether Trump became president or not, because Trump isn’t the problem causing this, it is a way simpler problem: greed.

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