Intel is still incentivized to provide much higher performance CPUs to the market because they compete with themselves - they want to encourage upgrades. What

Intel is still incentivized to provide much higher performance CPUs to the market because they compete with themselves - they want to encourage upgrades. What you're seeing here is beginning of the end of Moore's Law. Dennard scaling is dead and that will limit performance going forward. The implications are huge for the computer industry. As Bob Colwell liked to say - imagine if Moore's law ended in the year 2000. We'd never have smartphones.