Alot of patents and inventions get bought and "Vaulted" by the government or Corporations if it would mean they lose profit. Great ideas forever hidden, just so some fat cat doesn't lose revenue or gain competition.
Hell we’re even seeing this with modern tech like phones and even hardware now. Look at every iPhone in the last 10 years for example, they’re petty much all identical (and I say this as an iPhone user). Also looking at graphics cards as another example, the difference in power between the 40 series and 50 series is nowhere near the jumps from previous models. But it’s more profitable to sell the same thing and pretend it’s new and improved than it is to actually drastically improve something or try something new.
They're "pretty much identical" because there isn't really anything left to do with phones. The only possible new innovation is folding phones, and Apple waits until new technology is almost perfect until they release their version of it. In-screen fingerprint readers and under screen cameras still have issues as well, and Apple doesn't care about fingerprint scans anymore and the 'dynamic island' is something they like a lot, so I doubt they'd add those things even if they were perfected. Genuinely, what exactly would you expect them to add to their next phone? There isn't anything left to innovate with phones. Better camera, battery, screen is all that is left to do with them.
The 5000-series doesn't have a larger performance uplift because they're still on the same node as the last generation, and they can't move to a smaller one yet. The reason performance was higher with the other generations was because they went with smaller node sizes. 1000 was 16nm, 2000 was 12nm, 3000 was 8nm, 4/5000 is 5nm. It has nothing to do with profits. Nvidia still has a 60% margin on the 5090 (and probably the same % on the other models) and GPU's make up less than 10% of their current business
I mean yeah in Apple phones foldables and under-screen cameras would be fun, I also have an iPhone (and a Huawei Y9 which I love for it’s retractable camera and full screen display, no camera hole or island) and would prefer to buy the new cheaper model than the 16 Pro Max until they change something valuable, they used to push into new tech before it was perfected as it was clear with the fingertip reader and the jump to iPhone X. Camera wise the Android line destroys iPhone cameras with higher zoom and better AI correction. Personally I liked round edges better in the past lol.
With Nvidia GPU’s I’d like a ton of on-package memory including tons of RAM (as a Cerebras on-chip RAM CPU or an Apple M series CPU where it is in the same package) and generally better bandwidth with other components, a new kind of refrigeration system would be nice for a 3 trillion company and maybe something that fixes power issues and general size.
Nvidia does sell cards with more ram, they are just way more expensive and marketed for ai. They correctly decided that gamers wouldn’t want to pay more for something that isn’t a limiting factor for modern games.
As for power and heat, three trillion dollars isn’t going to change the laws of physics. The amount of power used, and therefore heat generated is largely correlated with the size of the transistors, which you bet they are spending billions trying to get smaller. As for refrigeration, most people don’t even use water cooling, and it’s hard to imagine something more effective than that while still being cheap enough for the average consumer.
It's funny with smart phones to take it one step forward. They are the perfedr example of planned progressive "innovations." For instance, they pretend to give you a better camera where in reality they are selling you mostly new software that makes pictures take up more space so you can forever pay to hoard every single blurry picture and screenshot of a meme you took so you can hand over your account credentials to your great grandchildren to find the 5 pictures that might have really mattered.
When it comes to graphics cards, there’s only so much smaller you can get. Eventually it’s physically impossible to double transistors like we could previously, aka Moore’s law.
We are jumping ahead so far in tech it's insane. I have 14 years of experience in hardware engineering and another 10 in swe.
This is a simple locking mechanism. Flick elbow, it catches on a lever. Basic engineering.
Most amputees would not be tending bar lol, it's an exhibition.
My grandfather lost an arm at 16. He didn't need his arm because he went to college and designed roads, he had a payout in the 1950s from a workers comp. He was able to go to school.
No one blocked this patent, it just wasn't practical. My grandfather felt uncomfortable with his prosthetics, and he learned how to function without it, he only wore them for formal photos or when he wanted to freak people out, pranking then with a hook.
Which was pointless. We knew the arm was plastic, and we knew the hook was coming.
What's the point if everyone knows it's fake? He stopped taking photos with a prosthetic when he hit his 30s because it was pointless, his arm was amputated above the elbow and people stopped judging people for being amputees, after WWII.
This type of thinking makes people not get vaccinated.
"Big prosthetics (pharma) stopped prosthetics from advancing"
No, maybe the prosthetics were uncomfortable to wear. With the material they were made with. Which was probably wood.
Anything having a mechanical ability to do this would also be rudimentary and not made out of the best materials, I'm guessing this would give the person wearing it sores where the weight would be resting.
But downvote me, my grandfather had one arm, and I use a prosthetic to fuck.
You are wildly incorrect. No 50 series card has reached 60% improvement over its 40 series counterpart without multiframe gen. I wouldn’t even care had you not said that stay in your lane shit to just blatantly lie.
Improvement in what metrics??? Playing bullshit video games, processing large amounts of data, or building LLMs, hosting?
Why is one 5k vs 1k?
The market?
Why is it hard for consumers to get them?
My HDMI input on my xbox broke, so I took a bareboned dell 3060 mini tower with an i9 MB, put a 6gb GPU, with 64 gb of ram and a 1tb SSD in it. It plays xbox, steam, emulators, streaming services etc.
It has no faceplate, and I call it the shitbox. The fact that yhe case folds open is one of its cooling tricks, I use.
I will challenge you to a battle. Your whatever vs. the Shitbox.
Cancer is actually an interesting one because there are so many types of cancer that work in different ways, that solving all of them with one cure is pretty much impossible. A lot of them would be like calling radiation therapy a cure. Sure, it works on some cancers, sometimes.
Edit: another point I meant to add, it's about the same reason we can't really cure or eradicate the flu.
They seem to constantly just dissappear because the media are irresponsible morons who have sold the public the concept of a magic bullet "cure for cancer" that will eradicate it as a disease entirely and instantly. They then present every new upcoming cancer treatment as that, and then stop reporting on it when it enters therapeutic use.
We've made huge strides in cancer care over the last few decades. Many types that were once lethal are now functionally curable (obviously it requires diagnosis and treatment delivery in a timely fashion, but mortality due to the more common cancers are plummeted).
The closest to thing to what you are talking about are some vaccines that are not widely avaliable because they were developed in Cuba are US are monomanical about that embargo.
Read an internet comment that is just saying some incredibly generic, widespread statement, “wow, truest thing I’ve ever read because it makes me confirm priors.” It really is no different than how MAGAs think when they read Trump’s insane, untruthful rants. The Trumps of the world will continue to get elected because of blind belief of overly generic BS posts and comments on the internet.
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Alot of patents and inventions get bought and "Vaulted" by the government or Corporations if it would mean they lose profit. Great ideas forever hidden, just so some fat cat doesn't lose revenue or gain competition.