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This just puts into perspective how stagnate cpus have been, ~14 years and we are just starting to move to more than 4 core processors on prosumer systems.

thisisnico 6y ago
Sad really. I was so passionate about hardware then. I lost interest because the innovation just dropped off a cliff. We were nearly exponential before the Core i series. Interestingly during that period Servers have had many-core CPU's. It just seems that Intel hasn't had a reason to push the envelope on the consumer side.
- wbl 6y ago
  Pour one out for Denard scaling.
kilburn 6y ago
To be fair, the move started a while back (arguably in 2017 with the introduction of the Ryzen CPUs). For instance, Steam's hardware report indicates that 1/3 of their install base already has 6 cores or more [1]. [1] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/cpus/ https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/cpus/
- zahrc 6y ago
  Before Ryzen even, FX-6300 and -8350 series (6-core and 8-core respectively) were used heavily in cheap pre-builts and beginner PC bulding during early 2010+
- cpeterso 6y ago
  Mozilla's Firefox Hardware Report shows that most Firefox users (55%) still have only two cores! Four cores is slowly climbing at 34%. Firefox users surely have older hardware than Steam gamers, but it's another data point showing just how slowly hardware turns over. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware#goto-os-and-architecture https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware#goto-os-and-arch...
CPAhem 6y ago
That's monopoly power for you. Right now there's competition to Intel again which means processors will probably start getting much faster again. That's one of the few great things about capitalism - competition drives innovation.
- swiftcoder 6y ago
  > That's one of the few great things about capitalism - competition drives innovation. Just so long as the aforementioned monopolies don't choke out competition. Sadly, we seem to end up with a lot of pseudo-monopolies in the tech industry. I wonder how much more competition we could have with strict monopolies regulation on acquisitions and mergers?
  - imtringued 6y ago
    If you let companies acquire close to 100% market share then monopolies are guaranteed to happen because one company is always more cost efficient than two but with the obvious problem that monopolies don't act in the interest of consumers. Limits on company size can definitively prevent monopolies.
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thisisnico 6y ago

Sad really. I was so passionate about hardware then. I lost interest because the innovation just dropped off a cliff. We were nearly exponential before the Core i series. Interestingly during that period Servers have had many-core CPU's. It just seems that Intel hasn't had a reason to push the envelope on the consumer side.

wbl 6y ago
Pour one out for Denard scaling.

kilburn 6y ago

To be fair, the move started a while back (arguably in 2017 with the introduction of the Ryzen CPUs). For instance, Steam's hardware report indicates that 1/3 of their install base already has 6 cores or more [1]. [1] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/cpus/ https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/cpus/

zahrc 6y ago
Before Ryzen even, FX-6300 and -8350 series (6-core and 8-core respectively) were used heavily in cheap pre-builts and beginner PC bulding during early 2010+
cpeterso 6y ago
Mozilla's Firefox Hardware Report shows that most Firefox users (55%) still have only two cores! Four cores is slowly climbing at 34%. Firefox users surely have older hardware than Steam gamers, but it's another data point showing just how slowly hardware turns over. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware#goto-os-and-architecture https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware#goto-os-and-arch...

CPAhem 6y ago

That's monopoly power for you. Right now there's competition to Intel again which means processors will probably start getting much faster again. That's one of the few great things about capitalism - competition drives innovation.

swiftcoder 6y ago
> That's one of the few great things about capitalism - competition drives innovation. Just so long as the aforementioned monopolies don't choke out competition. Sadly, we seem to end up with a lot of pseudo-monopolies in the tech industry. I wonder how much more competition we could have with strict monopolies regulation on acquisitions and mergers?
- imtringued 6y ago
  If you let companies acquire close to 100% market share then monopolies are guaranteed to happen because one company is always more cost efficient than two but with the obvious problem that monopolies don't act in the interest of consumers. Limits on company size can definitively prevent monopolies.

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