How does electronic technology so reliably get better every single year? How is there always new products with seemingly no cap to ability to develop them? (Thinking video game consoles, GPUs, CPUs, etc.)

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I don’t really understand how it’s realistic that every single year new GPUs, CPUs, consoles, TVs, etc. are being released with new technological advances. How is there not a year where it’s like “welp, actually our tech right now is advanced as we can figure it out”. Do they hold onto some features to save them for future releases?

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Most of the technology you’re getting has been created a few years ago, it’s just being brought down from luxury or business tiers to consumer grade as production becomes easier to scale up and the price per unit comes down.

So while they toss out a new “xxx amazeballs why can’t you tell the difference in the clarity feature” it’s been out for like 3 years, it just started closer to $10k and now it’s $2500 lol.