There has never been a greater need for accurate consumer electronics supply chain management.
The product life cycles for consumer electronics are notoriously short. No sooner has a company brought new technology to market than a more impressive innovation replaces it.
According to the McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2024 report, the pace of technology innovation has been remarkable.
The report states that, throughout 2023 and 2024, the size of the prompts that large language models can process, known as ‘context windows’, spiked from 100 000 to two million tokens. This is roughly the difference between adding one research paper to a model prompt and adding about 20 novels.
- Read our first column for the year here: "Building reliable consumer electronics logistics in a volatile state"