It's a bit dishonest to be looking at specifically the manufacturer who spent most of the past decade enjoying its effective monopoly on desktop CPUs as a refer

It's a bit dishonest to be looking at specifically the manufacturer who spent most of the past decade enjoying its effective monopoly on desktop CPUs as a reference for how computers have improved. Even moreso since 4 and 6 core CPUs are not representative of the high end systems used to train even current state of the art ML models.