The great thing about AI, it is finally a killer feature that is enjoyed and useful by every user worldwide. And the tech industry finally have an excuse to up sell 16GB as baseline, and perhaps even try to push 24 or 32GB Memory, along with GPU / NPU and CPU upgrade.

For users, a few hundred dollar extra ( on top of the original purchase ) is a such a small number compared to the productivity gain over the usage span of the computer.

AI alone not only increased the server hardware requirement but also user client requirement. It is basically the question everyone has been asking, what is after Smartphone? And to a degree it is AI. ( or LLM )

This will easily push the whole Semi-Conductor Industry forward all the way to 2032 ~ 2035. We will be at 8A or 6A by then.

PCIe 7? possibly PCIe 8? WiFi 9 which is a fixed version of WiFi 8. There are so many great Hardware improvement coming out all because of the demand of greater computing usage.

Software side has been rather boring TBH. I really like the phase Allan Kay uses to describe modern days software are "reinventing the flat tire".