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Re:Moore's law hits the roof by TeMPOraL on Sunday December 27, 2015 @08:17AM (#10797348)
Fortunately, not everything is on the Web yet, and not everything interesting to do with computers is done on-line.

I read this wondering why the CPU prices aren't dropping - my i5 costs as much today as it did exactly 4 years ago, when I bought it - and I'm sad about this, because I could use a faster CPU for Kerbal Space Program, but I'm not going to pay third of a new computer's worth for a marginal improvement in clock speed.

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Re:Moore's law hits the roof by szatkus on Sunday December 27, 2015 @09:10AM (#10797477)
It's just in desktop i5 segment. Intel threw more cores to Xeons and much higher clocks at low TDP CPUs, but that means nothing for desktop user. IPC only improved by about 25% during last few generations. Also AMD has nothing competetive in that segment.
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Re:Moore's law hits the roof by imtringued on Sunday December 27, 2015 @09:42AM (#10797548)
That's because Intel is waiting for AMD to catch up.
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