Remember how people said it was unrealistic in the Alien franchise that the rich and powerful would have amazing unbelievable tech, while 99.99% of the population got by on 1980s tech that still had vacuum tubes and monochrome screens?
I know it was a retcon to explain the tech in the first movies, but they might be on to something.
There’s only so many rare earth materials for high tech shit, and the wealthy are going to drive prices up to the point they’re the only ones that can afford it.
The first Alien movie was space truckers hauling cargo on decades long routes. That would absolutely be the type of ship that used extremely old and reliable tech for critical systems, like how modern aircraft and spacecraft use decades old computer components because it holds up better in those conditions and all the weird quirks are known and accounted for.
Zen 3 chips would take roughly just as much rare earth materials to make as Zen 5 ones.
Moreover, raw materials availability isn’t the problem right now anyway; fab capacity on the latest process nodes is the problem.
This doesn’t have anything to do with rare earth metals.
There is a large memory shortage. That’s created by the limited factory infrastructure required to manufacture it relative to recently-greatly-increased demand for memory; if there was more of that infrastructure, we could create more. This is more-severely impacting DDR5 memory; current processors can only use DDR5 memory.
There’s a certain amount of DDR4 out there that can be pulled out of older computers, but without older processors, it can’t be used, because current AMD processors can’t use DDR4 memory. They’re talking — maybe not very seriously — about restarting production of their older processors that can use it.
Remember how people said it was unrealistic in the Alien franchise that the rich and powerful would have amazing unbelievable tech, while 99.99% of the population got by on 1980s tech that still had vacuum tubes and monochrome screens?
I know it was a retcon to explain the tech in the first movies, but they might be on to something.
There’s only so many rare earth materials for high tech shit, and the wealthy are going to drive prices up to the point they’re the only ones that can afford it.
The first Alien movie was space truckers hauling cargo on decades long routes. That would absolutely be the type of ship that used extremely old and reliable tech for critical systems, like how modern aircraft and spacecraft use decades old computer components because it holds up better in those conditions and all the weird quirks are known and accounted for.
Zen 3 chips would take roughly just as much rare earth materials to make as Zen 5 ones. Moreover, raw materials availability isn’t the problem right now anyway; fab capacity on the latest process nodes is the problem.
This doesn’t have anything to do with rare earth metals.
There is a large memory shortage. That’s created by the limited factory infrastructure required to manufacture it relative to recently-greatly-increased demand for memory; if there was more of that infrastructure, we could create more. This is more-severely impacting DDR5 memory; current processors can only use DDR5 memory.
There’s a certain amount of DDR4 out there that can be pulled out of older computers, but without older processors, it can’t be used, because current AMD processors can’t use DDR4 memory. They’re talking — maybe not very seriously — about restarting production of their older processors that can use it.