
Hardware innovation in the gadgets you buy is dead. Well, it's not really dead, but it seems that way, and it's not going to change in the next few years.
There are important changes in the bits inside things like our phones. Things you probably can't see or when you hear about them you'll respond with a shrug if anything. Powerful co-processors and dedicated NPUs just aren't very sexy to regular folks like us who buy this stuff.