Mojo/Modular overtakes CUDA/HIP mindshare. Gets another big funding.
Beckhoff Automation doubles or quadruples it’s business via it’s EtherCAT and FreeBSD/TwinCAT implementation.
70% of new software projects choose Deno (JS/TS).
LLM/Internet search engine hybrid reaches 500m MAU.
There will be a high bandwidth personal computer operating system specifically for MI300X and the Nvidia equivalent. It will be of BSD lineage and ship clang/LLVM. Think 10x scaled up Sony PS5 for the 25k USD unit. The only PCI is disk/net/raterize, where scalar/vector/matrix all happens in system+userspace HBM packages. The application is EDA, Entertainment Industry, and research.
Lucid and Rivian will be pushing over 25,000k vehicles per year, each releasing something around 40k USD and ~6mi/kwh efficiency. USA restricts China EV imports.
A surprising about of production ML infra is WGPU/Deno/TypeScript.
DOCCIS 4.X and friend bring bidirectional gigabit home internet for over 50% of Americans.
IBM’s title 7 violations reach Supreme Court.
Global 4G LTE from ViaSat/Starlink/T-Mobile deals. SIP initiation of browser RTC ships in evergreen browsers. Apple/Ericson/Google.
A fleet of root of trust custodian depository banks are founded using Oxide hardware biting into the old NYC/east coast finance. Not at all crypto, just boring ‘neoclassical’ banking with proper depository licenses from FDIC/SPIC/OCC.
Intel’s 3nm comes online.
New tier 1 fabless company in vein of Nvidia/AMD. They don’t even care about ISAs they just build mem controllers and integrate them.
Link level Backhaul as a service becomes more of a thing.
PAM4 makes a lot of stuff fast.
Directed IO VM software (HV framework/ VirtIO) on macOS makes local dev a lot better.
Google pixel 10 (or ‘X’) is a breakthrough and sells over 100m units/yr and will be under 500 USD.
Apple ships a ‘MX’ series chip with HBM like a mini MI300X.
Big nuclear push in USA. Electric prices stay flat at least. Electric important for compute needs.
Laptop google OS (chromeos/android) becomes usable.
Python will be shipped in all evergreen browsers by 2030, access to all web IDL.
1 terabit ethernet.
Proprietary binary software makes a massive comeback after the EU App Store wars settle out apple/google’s behavior.
Amazon and Meta both ship a ‘pretty good / passible’ mobile phone for ~$100 USD for no other reason than to increase their markets.