How they’ll soon make your PC hobby more expensive.
Reminds me of what NFTS did to Gpus…
Your PC is about to get way more expensive anyway. As we near the last nodes limited by physics, the drive to finance the exponential growth fades and there is no reason to operate like has been nominal for the last 6 decades.
No other industry in all of human history has produced exponential growth that outstripped the budget of the largest military. We have lived the end of this anomalous era. That is about to change. The old ways will return. Militaries will dominate because there is no other way to create the same type of exponential growth. Spending so much money to sell magic rusty sand that can then be sold for peanuts after the initial investment is paid is absolutely nuts. The strategy makes late competition impossible. One cannot even buy the hardware to do so. Each node’s hardware is a feat unto itself.
The memory stuff is minor and much more scalable. The last fab node is less than 10 years away, but the actual real world hardware design schedule is 10 years, meaning we are already past the end where the people on the edge have nowhere to go. The entire world will change drastically as a result.
The stuff we do have can still get exponentially cheaper.
PCs stopped being cheap beginning with the Thailand floods years ago, which made hard drives expensive for a while, then crypto and NFTs repeatedly made GPUs costly, and that stupid Chia craze. Then manufacturers started swapping out minute components while keeping prices same or elevated. Now with AI where nVidia and AIBs can game the market in favor of techbros.
There is already a ram price jump, at least for ddr4. Prices of some raspberry pi CM modules have increased as a result.
