alt Hacker NewsAll of these extremely high end technologies are so far away from hitting the consumer market.
Is there any desire for most people? What's the TAM?
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nemomarx • 08/09/2025
Probably small consumer market of enthusiasts (notice Nvidia barely caters to gaming hardware lately) but if you can get better memory throughput on servers isn't that a large industry market?
Classic economics thinking: totally fucked "faster horses" thinking.
The addressable market depends on the advantage. Which right now: we don't know. It's all a guess that someone is going to find it valuable, and no one knows.
But if we find that we didn't actually need $700 NIC's to get shitty bandwidth, if we could have just been putting cables from PCIe shaped slot to PCIe slot (or oculink port!) and getting >>10x performance with >>10x less latency? Yeah bro uhh I think there might be a desire for using the same fucking chip we already use but getting 10x + 10x better out of it.
Faster lower latency cheaper storage? RAM expandability? Lower latency GPU access? There's so much that could make a huge difference for computing, broadly.