[Aurornis]

> We'd be taking a step back of... maybe 5-10 years? Computers 10 years ago were not that much slower than they are today

There’s more to the world of computing than your laptop.

Stepping back to 10 year old GPUs and server CPUs would be a massive handicap on the country.

> Maybe it'd force the tech industry to start writing more efficient user-facing software instead of depending on the incremental advancements made by chip designers and semi fabs.

It’s not about the speed of your laptop loading Slack. Large scale compute is already squeezing as much performance as we can out of server hardware.

[MBCook]

Not to mention there wouldn’t even be enough capacity to make all the chips we need even if we went with slower chips.