Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts

Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts

Op-ed: Slowed manufacturing advancements are upending the way tech progresses.

Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts - WorldNL Magazine

Consider the PlayStation 2. Not all of the PS2 Slim's streamlining came from chip improvements—it also shed a full-sized 3.5-inch hard drive bay and a little-used IEEE 1394 port, and initially required an external power brick. But shrinking and consolidating the console's CPU, GPU, memory, and other components took the console from its original design in 2000, to the Slim in 2004, to an even lighter and lower-power version of the Slim that retur…