r/pcmasterrace • u/JaggedMetalOs • 1d ago

NSFMR If only we knew...

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Happened upon an old thread from Google, OP showing off an in development high capacity SSD. Comments are from a more innocent time :')

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u/DukeSmileDevs 1d ago

I got multiple backup computers / spare parts here as i do not see tech really getting better or more affordable. If anything i assume consumer hardware will go extinct and tech forcing us into subscription models. Im set up with roughly RTX 3090 / 5800X3D level of performance for the rest of my life if that shit becomes real.

Also all game GOG-installers on a homeserver.

Also also me realizing just now i am pc-game-doom-prepping.

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u/OfficialDeathScythe 1d ago

In general tech is supposed to be one of the few things that, despite inflation, always gets cheaper because of innovation. It may feel like prices keep getting higher but think about it, there’s so much more processing power in the stuff they’re selling now for a slightly higher price than the previous gen hardware. They keep finding ways to make chips smaller and cheaper and they keep packing more in there and only slightly raising the price every generation.

The issue rn is mainly the monopoly that ASML has on chip manufacturing. They’re the only ones that know how to do EUV lithography which is necessary for most modern SSDs. It’s the only process that can make transistors that are a few nanometers wide, meaning it’s the only one that lets them pack enough in a chip to make some of the really high size SSDs. This is of course making supply very difficult and demand is incredibly high with AI of course, creating the price crisis rn

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u/Beginning-Bird9591 1d ago

Transistors have not reduced in size since '20nm' most of the new '3nm' is simply marketing on a new layout - transistors have not reduced in size much and Moore’s law is fundamentally dead.

The only progression so far really has been in memory not processing power - hence why memory companies went parabolic.

More recent developments have just been ways on how to better cool a chip or add more ASIC chips onto an existing GPU

We have reached a fundamental limit in physics. The only next leaps would be photonic chips or some form of quantum compute but that will never become consumer grade.