I had wondered whether Microsoft and Intel were more a fraternity or an uneasy alliance. This article gives hard details about how they have always been forging

I had wondered whether Microsoft and Intel were more a fraternity or an uneasy alliance. This article gives hard details about how they have always been forging sabers to cut each other's throats whenever the time was ripe. It also woke me up to Intel's hardware throttling, starving the graphics unit of enough busses. I had been in awe of PCIe's bandwidth, but now I know it could be so much more. It reminds me that if you focus on microspecs doubling every few years, you think there's breathtaking progress. But if you take a step back at the overall result, computing is moving much more slowly. For example, it seems like the average laptop has always had 6-9 hours of battery life.