It was pretty typical to get +4x performance in less than 2 years before after an upgrade cycle. The problem is that encryption standards aren't increasing at a

It was pretty typical to get +4x performance in less than 2 years before after an upgrade cycle. The problem is that encryption standards aren't increasing at a logarithmic rate like CPUs were, so DoD had to step in and adjust the marketplace. By 2010, it was well known in certain cirles that the i7 would be the last serious CPU in the desktop space, that future CPUs would be targeted to cloudian budgets and applications, where they can be managed and hidden away from people who might use real modern cpus you've may have heard about like Tile-x that are used by NSA to do the very thing they were afraid normal people might do, like break https, farm personal data and use it to affect the market, and basically have control over their lives outside of the financial system. Now that surveillance state is complete, they don't really have to worry about drug dealers breaking away from the financial system anymore.