Chips will depreciate more slowly as materials change, and thermal compute is still coming
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-20
Quoting @bzogrammer: Moore's Law has slowed dramatically over the past 8 years, and a major technical driver of chip failure is shifting due to new materials — meaning chips will depreciate more slowly than expected, improving the long-term value of compute investments.
Beff adds that "thermo compute will come along": if you think we've reached the endgame, there's bad news — the compute race is far from over, with new computing paradigms still ahead.
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