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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AFAIK, these advancements start years before consumers see them. Creating blueprints, new standards, smaller sizes, etc, then creating the machinery, prototyping, etc, them actual production.

For a while, Intel couldn’t actual make things smaller, and was basically the releasing the same tech with minor improvements.

I’m sure people other than me can explain much better.

Gamers Nexus is a great YouTube channel if you want to hear about the process and get very in depth reviews of end results