Amplifying the other current replies, what you're bemoaning and what slagged the Netburst "marchitecture" is the end of MOSFET Dennard Scaling: https://en.wikip

Amplifying the other current replies, what you're bemoaning and what slagged the Netburst "marchitecture" is the end of MOSFET Dennard Scaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling Moore's Law is "the number of lowest cost transistors doubles at X interval", and 193nm UV immersion lithography limits have been hitting it hard lately (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_patterning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_patterning). But chip manufacturing equipment makers haven't run out of tricks quite yet.