The Extreme Tech guys do actually credit and link to the GOTW article in the caption of the first graphic. So they got that right. The graphic itself grates on

The Extreme Tech guys do actually credit and link to the GOTW article in the caption of the first graphic. So they got that right. The graphic itself grates on me. Firstly, it is wildly out of date for a current article (no data for 2010 onwards and the last data point on perf/clock series being from ~2007). Secondly, using ILP as a measure of perf/clock seems quite off (the latency of various instructions do change quite a bit between generations)