HOW TO USE COMPUTING POWER FASTER: ON THE WEIRD ECONOMICS OF SEMICONDUCTORS AND GENAI

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It's difficult to understand how model providers will manage to generate sufficient usage, as the adoption rate is far from sufficient to absorb the computing power that will eventually be brought to market. The semiconductor industry will have to enter a downward cycle at some point, and this will hurt the AI sector significantly. The lack of interest in the economics of semiconductors is a real weakness in the analysis of the development of generative AI. This article shares economic considerations on the subject to help readers better understand these contemporary issues.