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  • ChuckChuckMcManis@chaos.social
    Sep 30, 2026, 12:57 AM

    @landley @f4grx If something was never alive can it be dead? I don’t disagree with your general claim but it it doesn’t feel particularly useful. Silicon Valley “could” if it chose to, focus on utilization and get 100x more “done” on your 2012

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  • Rob Landleylandley@mstdn.jp
    Sep 30, 2026, 1:22 AM

    @ChuckMcManis @f4grx A) I have three dead laptops in a box.

    B) they already did. The s-curve started bending down 15 years ago, but intel hit the Pentium 4 megahertz wall and backed off in 2001.

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  • Rob Landleylandley@mstdn.jp
    Sep 30, 2026, 1:28 AM

    @ChuckMcManis @f4grx when excessive pipelining failed to soak up the transistor budget, pentium M added 4 megabytes of cpu cache, they added more execution units and went hyper-threaded then full SMP, they integrated graphics on die with framebuffer and 3D engine texture memory, all the branch prediction and speculative execution that gave us meltdown...

    All this was _after_ photolithographic die size shrinks stopped giving them free doublings.

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  • Rob Landleylandley@mstdn.jp
    Sep 30, 2026, 1:30 AM

    @ChuckMcManis @f4grx but the larger point is the chipmakers being clever covered for Microsoft and friends failing to improve matters (other than soaking up more hardware capability) since the invention of the word processor, spreadsheet, email, and web browser decades ago.

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