{"id":99594,"date":"2016-07-28T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=99594"},"modified":"2016-07-28T15:13:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:13:34","slug":"why-pc-hardware-and-consoles-cant-keep-getting-more-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/99594-why-pc-hardware-and-consoles-cant-keep-getting-more-powerful","title":{"rendered":"Why PC hardware and consoles can’t keep getting more powerful"},"content":{"rendered":"

While it is becoming more and more economically difficult to produce 10nm\u00a0transistors, PC and console hardware could be facing another threshold – power.<\/p>\n

The Semiconductor Industry Association earlier this month published a somewhat-bleak assessment of the future of PC power, with reports that computers will need more electricity than the world can generate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The association is facing a lot of crunch points far more serious than keeping Moore’s Law going.<\/p>\n

The biggest is electricity. The world’s computing infrastructure already uses a significant slice of the world’s power, and the ITRS says the current trajectory is self-limiting: by 2040, as the chart below shows, computing will need more electricity than the world can produce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In order to combat these limitations, the U.S. semiconductor community including government, industry and academia have founded N-CITE –\u00a0 a National Computing and Insight Technology Ecosystem initiative will support development of an aggressive research agenda and a leap forward in new knowledge.<\/p>\n

You can read the full report here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Energy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gaming hardware could reach a power limit sooner than you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":99602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,3],"tags":[20144,807,18471,19937],"class_list":["post-99594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-hardware","category-pc","tag-energy","tag-pc-gaming","tag-power","tag-semiconductor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99646,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99594\/revisions\/99646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}