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5 years behind for a system you can actually use is pretty decent IMO. For a massive capital intensive business, high-tech, and with a much smaller internal mar

• ardy42 6y ago
  > 5 years behind for a system you can actually use is pretty decent IMO. And probably more than adequate for the kinds of applications you'd use this in. Military technology needs to be state-of-the-art for ruggedness and reliability, not performance. For a similar example, look at the CPUs used in space missions: based on performance specs alone, the best ones would have been state-of-the-art in the 90s.
  • brian_cunnie 6y ago
    > 5 years behind for a system you can actually use is pretty decent IMO. Yes, Intel chips aren't much faster now than they were 5 years ago. I vaguely remember reading on Anandtech that Haswell was the last generation that Intel was able to increase the IPC (instructions per cycle) by 15% over the previous generation, and nowadays the typical generational improvement is ~5%. According to my calculations, that would mean that the latest generation of Intel chips would be ~27% faster than the Elbrus: (1 + 5%)^5 - 1