Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more cores?

Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by melling on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @08:25AM (#12304109)

How many applications are actively running on a modern desktop? The kernel and GUI... The modern browser with Javascript engine? An always listening Cortana or Siri would be nice for many people. What's the current threading on modern games? I'd think at least 8 cores could be utilized.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by detaro on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @08:32AM (#12304147)

But could they be better utilized than 4 cores with the same energy budget and cost?

Most of the time, most applications use barely any CPU at all. What you really feel is the moments when a single application suddenly needs a lot of CPU, and when it isn't parallelized it wants a single fast one, not several slower ones. I almost never see my system under 100 % load, but I regularly see processes maxing a single core.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by melling on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @08:52AM (#12304232)

You'd think most apps could be built to utilize at least 2 cores, instead of pinning just 1 core.

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