I find it fascinating at how compute power has really plateaued in the last decade. In the 90's and the early 2000's PC hardware performance was increasing at a tremendous clip and PCs over 3-4 years old were considered obsolete dinosaurs. Now we have manufacturers releasing brand-new devices with perfectly acceptable performance based on CPU designs and RAM specs ripped straight out of a PHONE from 2024 - that's a 2-year-old mobile platform!
at this point I feel the big push is power efficiency over raw power. sort of a trickle-down effect from the massive popularity of portable devices like ipads and iphones and people running their entire lives off of those instead of a computer.
