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in reply to Fabio Manganiello

I agree that devices are lasting longer; I call it an improvement. Who wants to spend more? I am happy my computer is useful for 5 or even 10 years.

And yet, your final statement is contradicting your 5th paragraph, where you say competition is challenging and dethroning Intel. How? By innovation.

And if we didn't have a State to be lobbied for handouts, tax-breaks, subsidies and regulation, it would have been harder for the giant corps to hang on to their power.
in reply to Niclas Hedhman

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in reply to Fabio Manganiello

However, blaming this on capitalism is insane and silly.

The technology has peaked or pleateau'd; the innovation has gone elsewhere.

Specifically to mobile devices which are a much bigger market.
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in reply to Fabio Manganiello

@amerika if you are not talking about graphics cards, then you obviously have not been paying attention to advancements in computer tech.

Try running 3 screens at 1440 with that little Prius of a laptop.
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in reply to Sir Viber Ph.D, M.D.

@chonky @amerika GPUs aren't everything. They're good at running vectorized operations, but not everything in computers is about vector/matrix multiplication.
in reply to Fabio Manganiello

Businesses I think still have strong demand, but they are waiting to upgrade until they see a reason to upgrade.

In particular, nobody really likes Windows 11 and Office 365, except for very simple tasks.

The technology plateau is more complex. I think the bottleneck here is being able to use multicore processors efficiently. We are getting marginal speed gains instead.
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@amerika@noagendasocial.com @blacklight@social.platypush.tech I believe the bottleneck is the CPU-RAM memory bus. You can have as many cores as you like, but if you can't feed them data to work on, the CPU will just be sitting their idling until the data gets in. More cores makes this problem worse, not better and on-chip caches can only cover so much. Close behind that is the RAM-disk and the RAM-network bottlenecks.
in reply to teknomunk

@teknomunk yes, the Northbridge is indeed the bottleneck. But true multicore computing is also held back by software itself. Most of the software rarely uses parallel processes. Running everything in one process, or even as multiple threads allocated on the same CPU, makes the whole point of having multiple cores kind of futile.
in reply to Fabio Manganiello

@blacklight@social.platypush.tech

If everything was being run in a single core, I agree that would be useless.

However, we arenct stuck with deciding between single-core single-threaded and the fine granularity multithreaded applications that people fantisize about but that are incrdibly difficult to actually implement. Multi-core is perfectly fine with running multiple applications at the same time whenre none share memory and only communicate thru pipes, sockets or the file system and this style of programming has the benefit of being far easier to write, debug and maintain.
in reply to Fabio Manganiello

The new machines simply do not do anything much better, which is why they are bloating Windows in order to force you to run SSD machines.
in reply to ≠

Seriously what are you doing besides high performance gaming or crypto mining or protein folding with your laptop/desktop that requires that much additional horsepower? Granted the software bloat is insane but imagine getting nostalgic for the pentium II era. Also I kind of fucking love having an SSD.
in reply to dew_the_dew :verified:

@dew_the_dew @amerika this goes along the lines of "seriously, why on earth would you want more than 640 KB of RAM?"

I believe in demand-induced progress: give people better/more powerful tools, and they'll come up with something you couldn't even imagine earlier.
in reply to Fabio Manganiello

I, for one, am thankful that computers didn't get fast enough for the programmers to produce software so bloated that my 2016 PC would struggle with opening a note taking app, per Wirth's law