> but we've hit a point where even high-end chips from that generation aren't really wide enough for a lot of users Software-hardware coevolution in practice.

> but we've hit a point where even high-end chips from that generation aren't really wide enough for a lot of users Software-hardware coevolution in practice. When the first dual cores appeared, they were dual hardware cores... in a software world that was designed to operating with a time-sliced single core. It felt like magic! However, now most pieces of heavy software can use multiple cores, so you need 'one more core' to get the same level of surplus capacity. Also, the typical load of multiple tabs open with modern js web apps is much heavier than anything that would have been running constantly then. In the 90s, 00s, you closed down your background programs if you needed to run something important.