^^^ Ben and Rollo, the same could be said for Intel but Intel is still showing such strong sales even with just ~5% performance gain PER YEAR ever since Sandy Bridge.
Of course I don't expect NV to diminish their gains to just 5% per year, but heck, it could be half of what we're used to seeing now (or less). Volta might still come out ahead of Pascal by just as much as Maxwell did over Kepler, but then there might be yet another generation on 14/16nm. Look at Intel forfeiting the tick-tock cadence with Kaby Lake - which looks to be so unimpressive thus far - likely much less than Skylake was over Haswell. But wait a minute, I thought Intel really wanted to sell as many of their CPUs as possible?
I'm not fully buying Nvidia's share of bleak outlook - it could just be associated with HBM architecture - with 1.5x efficient being the most that could be gained within a couple years or so. Certainly, NV is working hard at developing a new memory architecture that could change everything 5 years from now. If nothing completely revolutionary, it should at least have to do with gobs and gobs of L4 eDRAM cache like what Intel has been doing with Iris Pro graphics.....
Of course I don't expect NV to diminish their gains to just 5% per year, but heck, it could be half of what we're used to seeing now (or less). Volta might still come out ahead of Pascal by just as much as Maxwell did over Kepler, but then there might be yet another generation on 14/16nm. Look at Intel forfeiting the tick-tock cadence with Kaby Lake - which looks to be so unimpressive thus far - likely much less than Skylake was over Haswell. But wait a minute, I thought Intel really wanted to sell as many of their CPUs as possible?
I'm not fully buying Nvidia's share of bleak outlook - it could just be associated with HBM architecture - with 1.5x efficient being the most that could be gained within a couple years or so. Certainly, NV is working hard at developing a new memory architecture that could change everything 5 years from now. If nothing completely revolutionary, it should at least have to do with gobs and gobs of L4 eDRAM cache like what Intel has been doing with Iris Pro graphics.....