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I agree, but we can start on our local machines first. Most of the latency of modern computers isn't related to the network.


Yes. Keyboard, Mousepad, Display, Sound, Graphics.

I mean input lag [1] is easily 50ms. But some of them requires software changes. And any thing software is expensive. The cost of this new Cable is only $300M. Hardware innovation is getting faster and cheaper than Software.

[1] https://danluu.com/input-lag/


Latency reduction like that would mostly be relevant for traders.


And games.




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