not wasting a lot of silicon space on an integrated graphics solution seems to be a big win in terms of increasing the effective power of the CPU without increa

not wasting a lot of silicon space on an integrated graphics solution seems to be a big win in terms of increasing the effective power of the CPU without increasing the price as much since in the end the die will likely be smaller. I am surprised Intel has never come up with some more gaming oriented i7s with more cores and no integrated graphics as pretty much no gamer would run without a discrete video card anyways, but then again without any competition from AMD it probably wasn't worth the engineering effort or the risk of cannibalizing their Xeon offerings.