Comment on Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss for chip-making unit.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The complexity and price of modern chip production is insane.
- Hey I’d like to make computer chips. 😋
+You will need a lamp for that. 🤔
-OK how expensive could it be? 🫡
+$150 million for one lamp, take it or leave it! 🤑 - 😬
It’s amazing that the result of this level of technology is available to consumers in the form of for instance smartphones. They really are a modern wonder.
garretble@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They are basically magic, but as soon as it takes three seconds to load an app we are all like, “this piece of junk!”
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well I’m 61, and once you had to go to the library for information. You had to carry either bulky maps books, or inconvenient fold outs, If you wanted a map of where you were. If you wanted to use a phone, you’d have to go home and use the landline, or use a phone-booth.
The Smartphone allows you to see the position of GPS satellites above you. And have your position pinpointed in seconds, with detailed maps, that span the world if you want to. And the ability to call is from wherever you are whenever you wish is probably taken for granted by most now.
The camera of a modern budget phone is way better, than when we used film, that was expensive and took time to get developed on paper.
The ability to record movies is total SciFi for a child of the 70’s, where 16mm was hot! Now phones even have stabilization, and way better color reproduction, and better light and resolution, so much better any comparison is laughable.
The motion sensors are based on Quantum Dynamics, in itself a crazy high tech solution, that reside in $1 components!
Internet everywhere, and a selection of apps that would the envy of any other system, music and movies available either from storage or the net. Integration of these technologies that were almost impossible before smartphones, like Stellaris, that knows your position, and allows you to just point at the sky, to see what stars are there.
And all these technologies have come together mostly since 2007! Only 17 years compared to a lifetime of 61 in my case. 😀
There is nothing currently comparable to smartphones IMO. Not even LLM.
LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We have genuine, honest to God miracle super computers, and we use them to look at cats online. God bless our species.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And we can look at cats wherever and whenever we want to, and still there are people who are not happy. 😋
mriormro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We’re a species that roughly sprouted up 300,000-400,000 years ago. We’ve only had this sort of technology and insight for less than half of a percent of that time.
By all measure, we’re still just dumb apes for the most part. One nice thing is that our brains do seem to be getting bigger over time!
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 2 months ago
also feet pics.
redempt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
the app is the piece of junk for taking so long to load on an incomprehensibly fast processor