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>a shrinking market for high-performance CPUs It is??
by curiousgal 10y ago
>a shrinking market for high-performance CPUs
It is??
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoWell, for chips that are, say, twice as fast as the best current chips for three times the money, I suspect that the market is in fact shrinking, because for most people, current chips are good enough. There's still plenty of people who want more speed badly enough to pay for it, but my impression is that there aren't as many as there used to be.
- tracker1 10y agoAgreed, there's still plenty of people hitting pain with Image/Video processing, 3D development (design or programming), 4K video/gaming/modelling are definitely still out there... Upgraded to an i7-4790K almost 2 years ago, and while not willing to drop another $1500 to upgrade to the latest CPU/MB, I have been keeping an eye open.
- ethbro 10y agoOr in other words, the market for single-chip performance is shrinking. The hyperscale folks care about how much physical space given performance takes, but that's likely more energy/performance than chipcount/performance constrained.
- tracker1 10y agoThat was my thought too... Facebook, Google/GCE, Amazon/AWS, Azure, U.S. and Chinese governments probably account for most CPU purchases from Intel.
- deepnotderp 10y agoThe "super 7" as they're called, account for ~60% of Intel's data center revenue, which accounts for ~60% of their profit. 7 companies provide Intel with 36% of its profit...
- anoonmoose 10y agoI mean, that's bog-standard 80-20 rule stuff, innit?
- kdeldycke 10y agoThe "Super 7" are: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent. Source: http://fortune.com/2015/11/15/intel-super-7/ http://fortune.com/2015/11/15/intel-super-7/