The Full Nerd ep 241: 2023 tech predictions and eating our words

On this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray wrap up the 12 months with the vacation custom of consuming our personal phrases.

Journalists make predictions on a regular basis, and usually there’s no penalties for being flat-out incorrect. That’s not the case with the Full Nerd crew, who put their predictions the place their mouths are—actually. How correct was the crew? Effectively, TFN predicted the chip scarcity would get higher within the second half of 2022, Intel would lastly ship its Arc graphics, chiplet GPUs had been inbound, and other people can be happy with “pricing and availability.” The crew additionally predicted that greater MSRP GPU gross sales are “right here to remain” and that Cyberpunk 2077 would get good after a disastrous launch—all guesses that proved true.

Does it sound just like the Full Nerd crew went full on Nerdstramus? We didn’t. For all of the hits, there’s loads of misses—and we’re compelled to actually eat our personal incorrect phrases in punishing methods to atone for our misfires. To search out out the hits and the misses, you’ll have to look at the total present under. You may as well watch The Full Nerd episode 241 on YouTube (subscribe to the channel when you’re there!) or hearken to it on Megaphone.fm if you happen to choose the audio alone. 

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