Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers

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• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I’m looking forward to cheap Chinese video cards that out perform Nvidia shit for 1/4 the price.

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I hope you’re right because Intel and AMD still can’t compete with high end Nvidia cards, and that’s how we ended up with a $5000 5090.

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    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      And can already beat nvidia at the price tiers most people actually buy at, and Intel is gaining ground way faster than anyone expected.

      But outside of the GPU shakeup, I could give a shit about Intel. Let China kill us. We earned this.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Part of this has been a long-standing move by every industry to prioritize business-to-business sales as opposed to consumer sales simply because businesses have money and consumers don’t, because businesses are pocketing all the profits and refusing to pay their employees (consumers) a living wage, let alone a thriving wage.

  It’s been a long time coming for the PC industry, because it’s been a general trend for at least two decades as sales to business have become more profitable over consumer sales ever since the late 90s.

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• Ilixtze@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  AMERICAN manufacturers, just waint until the Chinese industries swoop in to fill the gap. I seriously feel America just wants to kneecap itself.

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  • foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Wants to kneecap itself?

    Dude, the US is going full seppuku and we’re going to gut ourselves on the floor.

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• Korkki@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The silver lining is that hardware performance gains have been so minor from generation to generation that upgrading isn’t really that important anymore. Like if i upgrade from next generation equivalent GPU it would give like 8% more fps… and it costs like 1,5k… No thanks.

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You used to get a fairly significant upgrade ever few years for about the same cost as the old hardware. Transistors aren’t really getting much smaller anymore, so more performance needs a bigger die and costs more money.

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    • foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Is Moore’s Law being resurrected?

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• swade2569@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Probably because the hardware is going into systems that eliminate jobs and we become broke. All that gear is gonna sit on the shelf if we can’t afford it.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  off to sell it cheaper to companies, so they can rent it back to us.

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• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Even as consumer revenue remains sizable and maintains steady year-on-year growth, it finds itself competing against segments that grow exponentially faster and earn more per unit.

  So it has nothing to do with people having less money. It honestly gives me hope, things could change with a bubble burst.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    At what point can AI companies play the “too big to fail” card though, like the banks?

    Bubble bursts, and the government uses our taxes to bail out the companies. Again.

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  • forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    The point is to make the bubble butter, then they’ll pretend that’s why they have to edit consumer market.

    The goal is the so called “thin client” - i.e. absolutely everything in cloud

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    • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Bingo! And they’re doing it to enterprises too. Why do you think copilot is shoved into everything? Why do you think Recall is creeping towards being mandatory? Why do you think OneDrive isn’t optional anymore?

      They don’t just want your data for advertising. They want to watch the entire capital machine in real-time to make sure there aren’t any gaps, and dissent, and most of all, anyone getting the jump on something new and big. OneDrive to rule them all.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can make a lot of money selling imaginary products to nonfunctional industries.

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