So you mean to tell me they had the technology the whole time to make upgraded modular chips and sell them for pre-existing computer architecture but chose not to because they knew people would pay for the shiny new toys.
There’s a chip crisis and SUDDENLY!!! We’re all able to use new technologies on old computer architectures…
Call it supply and demand but I think that’s fucked up nm which way you look at it.
I read that and then immediately thought to myself, so they just chose not to release upgrades for old architectures and speed released a shit load of new hardware they knew people would pay OTA for.
This whole time they could’ve actually been making old computers better than they are and make it so the consumer didn’t have to spend a fuck load on upgrades but waited till a chip shortage to do it…
Except most of that data center hardware is designed for only it. Think GPUs with no video output, rack mounted liquid cooling, etc. There is very little reusable.
If there’s loads of crazy GPUs sitting around for low prices i’d bet people would create adapters for home use. Even if it can only be used for AI, we’d be in the golden age of local inference.
The only things a consumer would likely want is the RAM and storage, I will agree. But the immediate drop in demand for AI hardware would pivot a good portion of production back to consumer hardware.
And that isn’t including the fact that businesses and home labbers would love to get their hands on pretty much anything they’d be casting off.