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Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 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.