Cars are an interesting example of where it might not super matter that the chips lag. Even a lot.
If you are dumping kW of power into electric motors and climate control, having an inefficient hot not-great 200W computer or two running in car entertainment might not be super noticeable.
The downsides of needing bigger VRMs to power the cores, and needing more cooling are both real costs, that diminsh the effectiveness of trying to save money on cores. But it is interesting to me that this feels like the one segment where people might not notice 100Ws of egregiously inefficient computing, because it's such a small fraction of the total power budget.
If you are dumping kW of power into electric motors and climate control, having an inefficient hot not-great 200W computer or two running in car entertainment might not be super noticeable.
The downsides of needing bigger VRMs to power the cores, and needing more cooling are both real costs, that diminsh the effectiveness of trying to save money on cores. But it is interesting to me that this feels like the one segment where people might not notice 100Ws of egregiously inefficient computing, because it's such a small fraction of the total power budget.