• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    Moore’s law ran for 40 years but hit a wall around 2010 due to physics.

    “Free” upgrades ended long before AI bros started buying up all the RAM and GPUs.

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      1 day ago

      It slowed around 2010 while Intel sat on its arse for quite a few years, but then transistors started shrinking again. This page has a chart suggesting the law has pretty much continued to hold. But we know that can’t continue because things really are starting to hit physical limits now.