Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dubbed the "nerve cells" of the information age are starting to show their age.
The devices - whose miniaturization over time set in motion the race for faster, smaller and cheaper electronics - have been shrunk so much that the day is approaching when it will be physically impossible to make them even tinier.
Once chip makers can't squeeze any more into the same-sized slice of silicon, the dramatic performance gains and cost reductions in computing over the years could suddenly slow. And the engine that's driven the digital revolution - and modern economy - could grind to a halt.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
"The best games of the year and the creative teams behind them were in the spotlight at the grand award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award 2024." - German Computer Game Awards.
Sure buddy... You're trying to tell me it has a deeper story than goat 🐐 simulator 4000?!?!?. I wanna give bg3 a shot but my brain is burnt out on long games
Lol at the engine metaphor. Overly dramatic journo
and only one spec will be used to make all games equal
Meh they say this every year
although inevitable [but who knows when that happens] it is more speculation as usual
Furthermore, IBM has reached 2 Terahertz in their labs, and promises to reach that speed in room temperature (As they've already done that with 300 Ghz). Furthermore, there have been breakthroughs in silicon processors to use photonic effects in order to enhance performance between cores. Silicon processors still have plenty of life going on for them.
Besides, there's gonna be a quantic computer revolution, not to mention there are also possibilities with DNA, rendering the problem null.
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It's too bleeding edge and I don't know much, but supposedly, you can use DNA to process and store information (after all, DNA contains information), and it would supposedly be a lot faster than current processors. I don't know the details, but I bet there's more information on quantum computers than DNA computers; my bet is that the later won't even come into fruition, or who knows, perhaps a mixed of both. I've even heard about "Water computers", but about that I seriously don't know anything.