by dotlj » 2017-12-27 04:07
Moore's law used to apply to memory, disk capacity, processors but getting down to 10nm technology has slowed things down.
Some years ago I also thought that we might also see 128 bit processors. The changes in the 6th, 7th and 8th generation Intel processors have been less impressive that previous generations.
At least memory is continuing to increase and new cpu's support more memory, greater bandwidth, and so on.
I'm not surprised to see Nvidia drop support as more support is being dropped for 32 bit processors.
How long will we have to wait to see what Intel and AMD do with their graphic processors?
It's not always easy to buy a suitable computer without Nvidia GPU, depending on your specifications. YMMV.
I'd prefer to buy Nvidia free so that I don't need the latest kernel and non free firmware to get external monitors to work.