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Actually, Intel has very little reason to improve its chips in performance, and as we've seen basically since Ivy Bridge, their focus has mainly been dropping t
by higherpurpose 12y ago
Actually, Intel has very little reason to improve its chips in performance, and as we've seen basically since Ivy Bridge, their focus has mainly been dropping the power consumption of their chips, not increasing the overall performance of their chips (sure they've increased the IPC a bit more, but does it really count if the actual shipping chips then come out with a lower base frequency than the previous generation, making the overall performance at best stagnant, at worst significantly less than before - such as with Core M).
- CHY872 12y agoNot totally true. Intel obviously builds its chips to fit its markets, and while the consumer chips have been improving mostly in power consumption (because of the shift to laptops and the miniaturisation of those laptops) their server chips have been improving in performance also, where there are no such constraints. For example, Intel will happily sell you an 18 core 2.3GHz Haswell Xeon with a design power of 145W, or a 10 core 3.1Ghz processor that puts out 160W.