The unadmitted reason this is happening (and the AI bubble besides): Moore's Law *has ended*.

[simrob@social.wub.site]

@cstross this is also probably part of why companies aren’t gonna ramp up production to meet the bananapants AI demand - they’re betting the bubble will pop *and* non-bubble demand will go way down

[acdha@code4lib.social]

@cstross I think it’s even worse: Moore’s law has faltered (unsurprising, it’s an approximation) but the chipmakers have been tracking closer to it than predicted, only to see demand plateau before supply for the first time. That’s terrifying for an industry built on insatiable appetite.

I note a recent review of Samsung’s latest Galaxy: “you’d be hard-pressed to tell them apart from last year’s phones”. They’re using that “needed” extra silicon to … order Uber/DoorDash/GrubHub using an LLM.

[mavu@mastodon.social]

@cstross @blogdiva cat videos?