SK-Hynix have said they expect this BS to last until 2028. Not much you can do, really.
In other news, Valve has invested heavily into Fex-Emu, an x86 emulation layer for arm64 Linux. It’s one of the cornerstones that will allow running Windows games on the Steam Frame (which has an arm64 CPU), but it could also open the door for arm64 into the consumer PC market.
I’m not a huge fan of giving up the modularity of a classic PC, on the other hand, if you’ve ever used Apple Silicon and witnessed the performance and the ridiculously low power consumption, it is relatively clear that arm64 is the future. My colleague recently bought an M5 Macbook Pro and the single core performance beats my Ryzen 9 9950X CPU.
Tech does 1 of two things, advance or get left behind. Right now, the AI boom is killing the logistics chain for consumer PC tech, as suddenly a market that was driven by consumer demand is swamped with industry orders. That same tech is going to either be completely useless for AI data centers due to advances in 2 years, or it will have gone the way of Betamax as the tech went a completely different direction. If the consumer market keeps using the current underlying tech for a few more years then we’ll be in a good spot when the data center market moves on to whatever is the next thing.
I think as a consumer we’ll reap the benefit of changes in the underlying technology as the market pressure for a while was about incremental gains on the current generation of tech. With the massive increase in demand there is a lot of pressure to innovate. Whoever can figure out the next tech leap that goes around the current production bottle necks is gonna make a lot of money, and we the consumer will see that benefit down the road.
If you use your paid subscription too much you get to.. Guess what.. Fork over more cash. For what is more than a quarter of your subscription fee per 15 hour block. Now I’ll be the first to admit that 100 hours of gaming in a month is a lot.. But this is also most definitely another step into the “you own nothing and be happy” direction.