ENIGMATICO :flag_bisexual: :flag_nonbinary: on Nostr: We need to go back in consumer technology. And I mean this. It's not a nostalgic ...

We need to go back in consumer technology. And I mean this. It's not a nostalgic reason anymore, there is a practical reason.

For instance, I saw Gamer Nexus talking about a new company that wants to produce GPUs for the consumer market. I appreciate the effort, realy, but even Intel didn't get it right in the two iterations of their GPUs when they tried to get into the market. Besides, these devices are very complex and even if you want to get into it you still TSMC to produce the chips for you. And if TSMC is priorizing AI chips there isn't much you can do.

I feel like older technologies would be easier and cheaper to produce at this point. Instead of producing newer technology chips, start by creating a foundry that produces older technologies with simpler architectures, get them into the market, and from there move on to better architectures until you can dispute the monopoly of TSMC and other companies. Apparently they keep the robots used to produce these chips as a trade secret and nobody has access to them or something like that.

If you think about that we don't really need this much computing power anyways. I said this a million times and I stand to my point, that the new GPUs are just wasting watts of power for no reason when games could be optimized to look better with much less resources. It's just a way to enable game companies to make AAA graphics cheaper, easier and faster, while at the same time giving people a reason to waste money on a more expensive piece of hardware. This is anything but efficient.

It would also be easier this way to have new companies to get into the market. They could start with more primitive devices and progress to develop better hardware without requiring years of research and development as it is the case now.

Of course the big tech companies are going to lobby against this idea but it's not about them, it's about us.