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Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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Trump. Trump is killing ALL price drops.
Yes but that's only part of it
The lack of price drops aren't really caused by tariffs up to this point.
Tariffs will be responsible for price increases however.
This was going to happen whether Trump became president or not, because Trump isn't the problem causing this, it is a way simpler problem: greed.
They mention his tariffs, but it's also a bigger issue that has to do with the laws of physics hitting economics.
We've been up against the 5Ghz thermal wall for over a decade. We can keep adding cores but we need significantly improved design (less nanometers) for these gains - and these are now running up against another wall, namely quantum tunneling which begins being a problem at around the nanometer scale.
I assume only a radically different architecture (light instead of electricity?) will be able to smash these barriers.