Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades

Re:Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades by vkou on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:14AM (#26687523)

It has stopped, though. Single-threaded performance, either in absolute value, or per dollar has not been following Moore's law for more than a decade.

And outside of data centers, single-thread performance is still king.

Performance per watt has improved, but that's not a metric the typical end user cares much about.

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Re:Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades by mlindner on Sunday April 04, 2021 @10:42PM (#26694781)

Single-thread performance is not king though. Software nowadays is extensively multi-threaded. If you're still writing single threaded code for a desktop program people are going to look at you like you have antenna growing out of your head.

And performance per watt absolutely is important. People care a lot about battery life of their laptops and phones and that's strongly dependent on performance per watt.

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Re:Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades by jononor on Sunday April 04, 2021 @06:30AM (#26688272)

Performance per watt is key for all portable devices, ie the laptops and phones that many do almost all of their end-user computing on.

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