Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dubbed the "nerve cells" of the information age are starting to show their age.
The devices - whose miniaturization over time set in motion the race for faster, smaller and cheaper electronics - have been shrunk so much that the day is approaching when it will be physically impossible to make them even tinier.
Once chip makers can't squeeze any more into the same-sized slice of silicon, the dramatic performance gains and cost reductions in computing over the years could suddenly slow. And the engine that's driven the digital revolution - and modern economy - could grind to a halt.
Digital intelligence and analytics firm Sensor Tower has released its State of Gaming 2026 report, revealing flat growth in mobile game revenue, double-digit growth for PC and console gaming, and another record year for PC, with more games sold on Steam than ever before.
Kotaku writes: "A Resident Evil Requiem review published by long-standing UK gaming news site Videogamer has been removed from Metacritic after readers pointed out it was written by a fake AI journalist who doesn’t actually exist. Videogamer‘s human masthead was gutted last week, sources tell Kotaku, and the site has been publishing apparent genAI slop ever since."
Genuinely well done on metacritic for taking such an immediate hard stance. Not often, if at all, you see that these days. Credit where it’s due.
This is really sad on so many levels. Not least of all the fact that all the human lost their jobs to a language model. Can we block all content coming from Videogamer site. Can we make a rule that content sumitted to N4G must be greated by a human being.
I'm gonna report every Videogamer article I see on N4G from now on so just putting it out there.
Isnt videogamer one of the N4G owner run sites?
Seems to fit their MO to cut corners and push cheap dribble.
Check my comments, over a year ago I was calling out videogamer and N4G on their AI articles pushing slop 24/7
It is amazing but I'm starting to slightly miss the moron gaming press we had in the 2010s because at least they were human.
Game and advertising companies have been told to 'get their houses in order' and be more transparent about the presence of loot boxes in mobile titles.
Lol at the engine metaphor. Overly dramatic journo
and only one spec will be used to make all games equal
Meh they say this every year
although inevitable [but who knows when that happens] it is more speculation as usual
Furthermore, IBM has reached 2 Terahertz in their labs, and promises to reach that speed in room temperature (As they've already done that with 300 Ghz). Furthermore, there have been breakthroughs in silicon processors to use photonic effects in order to enhance performance between cores. Silicon processors still have plenty of life going on for them.
Besides, there's gonna be a quantic computer revolution, not to mention there are also possibilities with DNA, rendering the problem null.
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It's too bleeding edge and I don't know much, but supposedly, you can use DNA to process and store information (after all, DNA contains information), and it would supposedly be a lot faster than current processors. I don't know the details, but I bet there's more information on quantum computers than DNA computers; my bet is that the later won't even come into fruition, or who knows, perhaps a mixed of both. I've even heard about "Water computers", but about that I seriously don't know anything.