• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    and they’ll just age out of usefulness.

    Nah, we’ll stall on this generation. Even if a new one is released, very few will pay the extra when games would alreadyhave to start becoming RAM optimized again. Even Windows just dropped their 32GB recommendation.

    Without the recommendation being met, people weren’t buying windows PCs, so lower the requirement and people will buy more computers and more copies of windows. Which means they always could have just optimized better if they felt pressure.

    Games will 100% do the same.

    Which could be a huge thing for rational companies right now.

    The big hurdle to domestic production is you’ll spend billions and by the time it’s built it’s “last gen”.

    Instead of useless data centers, we could be building up domestic chip production, confident it will still produce top of the line chips when it goes live.

    A literal golden opportunity, more so if China goes after Taiwan finally, you’d be the only international supplier.

    As far as I know, no country is doing it tho.

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      28 days ago

      You’re right about domestic production but I think the situation is much worse. We’ve tried to make advanced chips domestically and we can’t do it. Taiwan has had decades to perfect the resource allocation, supply chains, knowledge, and work culture to make those damn things.

      It should be an executive order to make them domestically, and put up with the years of failure and low output. It’s a matter of national security to be able to create and maintain computers and other advanced tech.

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        28 days ago

        Biden tried to do just that. But our own beloved oompa lumpa axed that first chance it got. Because… I’m not certain it’s “reasoning”

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          28 days ago

          Because it was Biden’s accomplishment. That alone meant it had to go. He’s a vindictive, narcissistic toddler.