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> And it hasn't really been good for the industry. Intel's problems over the past year aside, they have done an amazing job pushing the limits of computation o
by anameaname 9y ago
> And it hasn't really been good for the industry.
Intel's problems over the past year aside, they have done an amazing job pushing the limits of computation over the past decades.
- tjoff 9y agoLast decade I'm not so sure. I bought the very first readily available consumer quad core CPU a decade ago (the Q6600), two years ago I upgraded and I had to pay a huge premium because I wanted more than four (I got six!) cores. And that is just starting to change today. Not that core count is everything but consumer desktop CPUs have stagnated quite a bit. Here's to hoping AMD stirs it up a bit.
- cm2187 9y agoBecause the compute power for consumer CPU nowadays is good enough, the effort has been in reducing energy consumption. But if you look at the server / workstation side, you can get 20+ cores in a single dice.
- tjoff 9y agoGood enough relative to the competition perhaps. Nowadays the CPU is the bottle-neck even when surfing the web and using simple (electron) text editors.
- imtringued 9y agoIf you consider core count desktop CPUs have had massive increases in performance in the last year and will get another massive increase when 7nm arrives.
- tjoff 9y agoThis seems to only reinforce my point?