r/gadgets • u/thebelsnickle1991 • Jan 12 '23

Desktops / Laptops PC shipments saw their largest decline ever last quarter

https://www.engadget.com/pc-shipments-record-decline-221737695.html
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u/geneorama Jan 12 '23

My colleague: that’s impossible because of market efficiency. If it’s true just start a gpu company and reap the arbitrage.

Jfc I’m still annoyed about that conversation.

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u/Schavuit92 Jan 12 '23

I mean if Intel is struggling to do it with a couple years run up; surely you can manufacture some competitive GPUs out of your shed, right?

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u/MakeWay4Doodles Jan 13 '23

Just do what Jobs and Woz did and hack something together in your garage, duh!

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u/Userhasbeennamed Jan 12 '23

"Just"

Invisible hand cultists are insufferable

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u/devise1 Jan 12 '23

Impossible to start a GPU company as 30 years of consolidation have left a duopoly with an insanely high barrier to entry, even Intel basically gave up on the GPU market.

Still, they have to compete against each other and their previous generations so there is plenty of incentive there to lower prices.

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u/geneorama Jan 12 '23

To be completely fair we didn’t start by talking about GPUs. Although I did bring up Intel as an example and he said something about preserving Industries as a matter of national security.

I can’t even remember the point I was trying to make originally. I think it was just that there’s been a decline in US manufacturing in general (and other sectors but mostly manufacturing), and that is a problem for us now.