CPUs aren’t getting faster clock speeds and they aren’t getting more cores. How are they improving in performance?
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Processor design is trending more towards efficiency
RAM and bus speeds, and on die cache are increasing which improves overall efficiency
Power efficiency is increasing, which reduces heat and makes mobile device batteries last longer. This makes computers more practical.
The demand for core count has actually been stymied a fair bit because companies have started charging per the core for licensing.
Microsoft for example charges a premium for having more than 16 cores in a Server, so that has driven down the demand for high core CPUs.
Intel has also been shooting itself in the foot in the past few years by wasting a lot of die space on technologies that aren’t that practical. Linus Torvalds (Linux) made a very public switch to AMD processors in his machines and has accused Intel of it’s own “emissions scandal” in a sense by dedicating die space to technology that only serves to cheat Processor benchmarks.
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