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Intel's CPUs have been getting remarkably worse for a long time now. They trail the software improvements. To give you an anecdote - I got a ThinkPad T430s and

Intel's CPUs have been getting remarkably worse for a long time now. They trail the software improvements. To give you an anecdote - I got a ThinkPad T430s and it made my work feel 10x faster(Java EE development in 2012). I got my next ThinPad P51s in 2017 - an it was just one huge disappointment. It felt like Intel was stepping back. I now have ThinkPad P1 and computing power is still just OK, though still better than the U class i7 in P51s. I'll be happy to knock Apple for marketing BS("3 times faster", etc). But Intel has shown that they just need to crumble. I hope that my next laptop is not using Intel's ISA or cores.

bigboii 6y ago
>I got my next ThinPad P51s in 2017 - an it was just one huge disappointment. It felt like Intel was stepping back. the microcode bugs cut performance by 20-30% varrying in your workloads. and it comes with a 4k display? That would also contribute to a performance loss, depending on what you're doing. That 2.8-3.9 cpu would be equal to a 2.3-3.3 before the bug, afaik. Thats hardly faster than 10 year old duals, wow! >>they just need to crumble. >Less competition will only make things worse for us consumers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- fakedang 6y ago
  I'd say Intel has been enjoying the fruits of its pseudo monopoly for far too long now.
- JAlexoid 6y ago
  > Less competition will only make things worse for us consumers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Intel is so large that it is using up too much of production capacity for anyone to enter the market. Intel crumbling = more resources for new players to get lower cost manufacturing capacities.