It's mostly a performance improvement along Moore's Law. Are you saying that now with the tri-gate Intel's chips will double in power every 12 months or every 6

It's mostly a performance improvement along Moore's Law. Are you saying that now with the tri-gate Intel's chips will double in power every 12 months or every 6 months? And if this is just a one time only "big" jump in performance, then even if it's 100% increased performance over sandy bridge, it's still not that much. ARM chips double in performance every 12 months. That's my issue with this. Because most people seem to think Ivy Bridge puts Intel so much closer to ARM, but it doesn't. Let's say that without 3D, the jump from 32nm to 22nm would give them 30% increased energy efficiency. Now with the 3D it gives them 50% increase, so an additional 20%. As I said,the jump in performance is nice but not a world changer.