[ijidak]

Crossing my fingers that this boom jumpstarts 90's like improvements in computing hardware.

I feel like part of the reason for the relative stagnation in hardware over the last twenty years was simply the lack of use cases to justify hardware refreshes by businesses.

Most of the money and energy went to mobile for the last fifteen years.

Affordable local inference might be the gravy train the server, desktop, and laptop manufacturers need to get back in gear.

[gruez]

>I feel like part of the reason for the relative stagnation in hardware over the last twenty years was simply the lack of use cases to justify hardware refreshes by businesses.

No, we're running into limits of moore's law, and it's showing in prices for new nodes, where they're getting denser but not cheaper.

[linzhangrun]

Physical limitation of the manufacturing process may be more significant factor, starting from the TSMC 10nm ten years ago