Intel reiterates chip supply shortages could last several years

29    01 Jun 2021 14:34 by u/rootatlocalhost

10 comments

11 u/None 01 Jun 2021 14:41
I, for one, welcome this. I hope this lasts for many years and drives the price of silicon exponentially. Maybe we would see the end of incompetent programmers who rather add 96 more CPU cores and 1 TB of RAM instead of writing a more efficient algorithm. We'd see fewer frameworks that load 2.5 GB of libraries just to print Hello World! Maybe Java would fuck off to hell where it belongs. So many positives.
9 u/sigilstone17 01 Jun 2021 15:16
Seriously. Computers are so much more powerful but the software runs worse than Windows Vista. It's bullshit how bad code has gotten.
1 u/None 01 Jun 2021 15:51
In the last year I've been playing with ESP32 (and a bit of less powerful ESP8266) microcontrollers. With two 32bit CPU cores, 520 kB of RAM and 4 MB of flash storage it has enough of power for plenty of things but one has to constantly think about staying within the limits of the platform and programming this thing is both challenging and enjoyable. The IT world has relied on fast advancement of HW and programmers deteriorated into coders and search agents for Stack Overflow.
2 u/VILLAIN 01 Jun 2021 15:43
We can only hope this shortage lasts as long as possible 🙏🏻
1 u/None 01 Jun 2021 15:45
No joke. Every vendor call relating to performance inevitably ends with "just throw more resources at the server". I shouldn't need 12cpus and 64gb of ram for a 1tb logging server.
4 u/Nosecheck 01 Jun 2021 15:56
That's a horrible thing to say. Yes, lots of software runs like shit. But powerful computers enable lots of interesting stuff like machine learning.
3 u/None 01 Jun 2021 16:00
Machine learning sold as AI is the biggest technological scam of this decade.
5 u/SEELE 01 Jun 2021 16:35
The thing that sucks most about this is that open hardware projects have been gaining steam. This kills off hobby level small batch projects.
2 u/None 01 Jun 2021 17:29
That’s probably a welcome side effect. If any old dickhole could buy a $20 electronics kit and teach themselves programming, then people might start finding their way out of the working class and we can’t have that. This is the golden age of single board computers and the timing for this couldn’t be any more suspicious.
0 u/DuncanIdahos3rdGhola 02 Jun 2021 01:35
Too many used in the vaccines.