alt Hacker NewsIt seems roughly similar to the pricing level of personal computers in the early eighties (i.e. IBM PC and Apple Macintosh). I’d expect prices to come down significantly over the next few years. Not so much in the next year or two, but after that.
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oblio • yesterday at 7:38 PM
Just like for warships, the complexity and cost of building cutting edge hardware has grown exponentially up to a point where a significant chunk of the world's computing is dependent on 2 companies: ASML, TSMC. We shouldn't extrapolate linearly from examples from the 80s.
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That's in nominal dollars. However, inflation since then has been about a factor of ten to fifty and it hasn't trickled down at all.