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The silver lining is that hardware performance gains have been so minor from generation to generation that upgrading isn't really that important anymore. Like if i upgrade from next generation equivalent GPU it would give like 8% more fps... and it costs like 1,5k... No thanks.
You used to get a fairly significant upgrade ever few years for about the same cost as the old hardware. Transistors aren't really getting much smaller anymore, so more performance needs a bigger die and costs more money.
Is Moore's Law being resurrected?
Transistor size downscaling is pretty much done. Also mosfets can't much improve in this race anymore. We would need a new computing paradigm to see manufacturing cost reductions or major performance leaps. For consumers thats still years away.
Probably also a big reason why it's less profitable - consumers are upgrading more and more slowly. In part because of the performance gains being smaller, in part because a lot of components are getting more expensive. In that way it's a self fulfilling prophecy.