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TSMC reportedly plots ultra-advanced sub-1 nm chips with 'trial' production starting in 2029 (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] -1 points 6 months ago (5 children)

What's the point? Its just stupid numbers. GPU's will get more and more expensive to justify these tech "advances".

We have known how to make these GPU's, the problem isn't how to make them smaller and smaller but how do we make more of them.

Gamers can't buy it to play, 3d artists can't buy it for rendering, even AI enthusiasts can't buy it to run local models. These news just feel like these people are living in their own bubble.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Increasing the transistors count means datacenters can use less gpus to do the same amount of work.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Don't these new GPU's need to be bought by the datacenters? Where do you think they will push to cost to? Can one 5090 do more than 2x 3090? It sure as hell going to cost twice as much.

    You have to think how much faster this new chip is, and whether it is fast enough to justify the cost. Gone are the days of moore's law when transistors could double every 2 years.

    We need more production capacity to bring down cost, not a slightly faster gpu

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Technology advancements like this are going to keep on marching along no matter the price of the end good. There is massive demand for better and better silicone and that doesn't look like it's going to change pretty much ever, at least not in our lifetimes.

    Also, every time you see these companies announcing new chips with smaller transistors, that means they built an entire new fab to produce these chips. The old fabs generally still stay operating if there is demand, so this does in fact increase capacity overall

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    There are limits tho, there's a general trend of diminishing returns. Moore's law is no longer applicable.

    My point is that we want more innovation is production capacity, these new innovations are mostly for making money. What the company wants is to say "look at our new shiny thing its 10% better than previous gen but it will cost you 50% more than last gen, also last gen is deprecated".

    All of this is motivated by the drive to make more money for the producers, not to help the enduser.

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