| Killiana1a said: Does anyone know how fast the computer processor technology is moving? A couple of years ago, I was told by a friend with a Bachelor's in Engineering that computers 2 years old are actually 5 to 10 years old in comparison to the new technology. Second, with the ongoing rapid evolution of computer technology, is it self sustainable meaning will it be able to be priced down to a reasonable level, in a possible 10 year US and global recession starting with the onset of the mortgage crisis in 2007, in order to have an acceptable market entry price? Finally, what is the point of a company putting out new and better products year-after-year if their traditional customer base(s) is shrinking to a degree where it makes the price for the product in their emerging economies customer base too much? In simpler terms, are Intel, AMD and the like letting the tech nerds drive the products to a point where the company is constantly getting too much ahead of themselves in putting out products that no one will be able to afford brand new? |
Your friend was spinning a tall tale.
Is the technology improvement sustainable? In one word, yes. We are constantly finding new uses for the technology we create. If you were to impose a 2010 level of technology in the form of an Intel Core i7 laptop on the world in 1980 with their level of understanding of the possibilities of computing you would have to forgive them if they said that the world would need very few computers just like that one.
Whats the point in the better products? Well if they don't make them someone else will. Thats how competition works. In any case like above they have never fallen afoul of these trends because the market size and potential of computing has increased at a faster pace than the prices have been coming down.
Tease.
