You used to get a fairly significant upgrade ever few years for about the same cost as the old hardware. Transistors aren’t really getting much smaller anymore, so more performance needs a bigger die and costs more money.
Transistor size downscaling is pretty much done. Also mosfets can’t much improve in this race anymore. We would need a new computing paradigm to see manufacturing cost reductions or major performance leaps. For consumers thats still years away.
You used to get a fairly significant upgrade ever few years for about the same cost as the old hardware. Transistors aren’t really getting much smaller anymore, so more performance needs a bigger die and costs more money.
Is Moore’s Law being resurrected?
Transistor size downscaling is pretty much done. Also mosfets can’t much improve in this race anymore. We would need a new computing paradigm to see manufacturing cost reductions or major performance leaps. For consumers thats still years away.