It will never bounce back.
The “plan” is to effectively kill the market for personal PCs. PCs won’t be gone, but with the bulk of the population buying phones, tablets, or thin clients, it becomes far more niche and kills its critical mass for platform development.
It sounds tinfoil hat-ish yeah, but… well, explain 2026 to your 2011 self.
I foresee what happens is consumer level hardware just stops getting made, except devices like phones and tablets.
Oh, you wanted DDR5? We stopped making that. Hyperscalers pay a 20x markup for the same wafers. You want a motherboard? Sorry, demand dried up and we don’t make them.
You can rent our computers through GeForce Now and stream straight to your iPad though!
Yeah, this is exactly what I meant, worded better.
There needs to a critical mass of PC demand for us to get anything at all.
Yup. Give it 50 years, and you’ll be subject to prosecution for owning >x FLOPS. First they take the Internet, and then they take compute. The strategy is starting to become clear.
I’m having a hard time seeing this but time will tell.
AHH, so that’s how the rich get ultra-tech while everyone scraps old machines for parts!
I wondered how we’d take that step to cyberpunk dystopia.
Perfect for when it’ll be time for me to upgrade, as I got a new system in 2025.
