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No. A great time to buy a CPU was a few decades ago, when each new CPU made your computer go 10x faster. Moore's Law was a fun ride.
by blagie 3y ago
No. A great time to buy a CPU was a few decades ago, when each new CPU made your computer go 10x faster. Moore's Law was a fun ride.
- qzw 3y agoMy desktop’s got the clocks, it rocks! But it was obsolete before I opened the box. Your laptop’s a month old? That’s great… for a nice, heavy paperweight! It’s all about the Pentiums, baby.
- andrewstuart 3y agoMoores law is still going. And I find multi core CPUs just as cool as the olden days.
- Tostino 3y agoIt's not though... it has been dead for over a decade. It was about price for silicon density. Prices have gone up significantly for the newer nodes without the density increase necessary to offset.
- ac29 3y ago$250 today buys you a Intel 13600, a 14 core chip. $250 ten years ago bought you a Intel 4670K, a 4 core chip (with significantly slower cores, less cache, etc). A 14 core processor was available only as a server CPU and cost $3000. I'm not sure that is evidence of price going up faster than density over the last 10 years.
- blagie 3y agoI'll clarify Tostino's comment. For most of Moore's Law, price per mm of silicon was constant. A state-of-the-art 10 micron, 5 micron, 2 micron, 1 micron, and 500nm node, at introduction, was basically the same price per square millimetre. This meant you had exponentially-growing numbers of transistors for the same price. Density is going up now, but so is price. A billion transistors a 4nm will cost less than a billion at 40nm, but it's a different ride since you don't ave a 100x reduction in cost. There is a reduction, but it's not the same wild ride. At the same time, NREs are exploding.
- constantcrying 3y ago>. A great time to buy a CPU was a few decades ago, when each new CPU made your computer go 10x faster. Moore's Law was a fun ride. Which makes it the worst possible time to buy a CPU as the value is low (economies of scale, market saturation) and declines fast (new models).
- nateb2022 3y agoIf you look at this another way, each new CPU made your computer 10x slower, relatively speaking.