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I suspect that's been deliberate at least on Intel's part since their year over year changes haven't been compelling for the better part of a decade. So their

• ajross 7y ago
  That's just fundamental. In the golden age of VLSI scaling, from 1985 to 2003[1] or so, we really were seeing that doubling of transistor density with every 1.5-2 year generation, and the shrinking transistors were getting faster more or less linearly with size, leading to a quadratic improvement over time. Those days are almost two decades in the past, and they aren't coming back, ever. We happen to be seeing a bump right now due to AMD migrating across two process nodes at once (and Intel having fallen a little behind), but that's just an instantaneous thing. The days of the 486 are still gone. [1] My own dates. I'm bounding this roughly by the point where EDA tools caught up with process improvements (allowing straightforward die shrinks and scaling of logic) and the end of "free" frequency scaling due to thermal and power limits. Someone else probably has a different definition. Fight me.