It’s really kinda funny how the market for computer hardware is being warped into insanity by a mix of supply chain issues and increasingly strange workload markets.
Conversation
Life used to be so simple. Consumers bought client devices, enterprises bought servers, and boring industries bought embedded parts. Gaming PCs were a cute side market.
1
11
Now, random crypto rig operations in garages, all sorts of crazy ML builds, strange new form factors on the edge. All kinds of IoT applications besides automotive. It’s a silicon wonderland.
1
18
Every week now I hear of people using computer hardware in ways that strike me as a new market.
2
1
10
The last mile of computing is going to be quite insane soon.
Desktops —> Laptops —> mobile —> Cambrian explosion of random insanity.
The home as a menagerie of a hundred weird computers. Not smart home so much as weirded home.
Replying to
And looking back in a decade’s time, some of the usages that now seem so strange will instead be so common that they seem completely normal


