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Having to refresh coffee lake again before we see cannon lake doesn't exactly bode well for those of us waiting for any reason at all to upgrade from haswell (o
by larzang 9y ago
Having to refresh coffee lake again before we see cannon lake doesn't exactly bode well for those of us waiting for any reason at all to upgrade from haswell (or even sandy bridge). Core count went up with coffee lake, but ipc has been flat for years now and thermal loads have gone up while oc headroom has gone down.
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y agoIt may get worse still. Supposedly Intel’s 10nm process is doing very poorly and might actually be worse than 14nm.
- jackmott 9y agoI'm not sure what we could hope to gain without some innovations in ram latency as well.
- anonbanker 9y agoMeanwhile AMD's 7nm process is still on-track, and doing well.
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y agoDo you mean GloFo's? Yes. And even if that doesn't work out, AMD is fabless, they can also use TSMC or Samsung.
- craftyguy 9y agoAt this point, process size is just a marketing gimmick since they rarely even refer to the same thing.
- kevstev 9y agoI have an i7 quad core sandy bridge in my laptop, and I just casually play games, generally older games I pick up for cheap during steam sales. I do some somewhat heavy development on the box, but have never felt a need to upgrade at all. When I bought it in early 2011, I knew I was on a next-gen architecture that would last me awhile, but I really didn't think that 7 years later the only reason I would want a new laptop is because the bezels and overall size seem clownishly large by today's standards.