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A comment on 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 grabcocque on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @09:01AM (#12304298)
The move over the last few years has been towards mobile, and decreasing power consumption.

So over the last ten years or so, Intel has responded to this realisation by, inter alia, using the extra transistor budget afforded by Moore's Law to move more and more of what was once on the chipset on die.

This is, practically, a much better use of silicon than simply adding more cores.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by pjc50 on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @09:26AM (#12304473)
Intel has responded to this realisation by .. giving up on mobile, for the time being.

(The integrated graphics are getting quite acceptable and we're starting to see PC-on-a-stick and cheap Intel tablets as a result, but I'm not sure how big a market that is)

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Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by dr_zoidberg on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:57PM (#12307341)
Actually, the Iris branded GPUs are quite impressive, considering that they are essentially a co-processor inside the chip and they pull over 800 GFLOPs of compute power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HD_and_Iris_Graphics#Sky...

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Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by gpderetta on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @11:57AM (#12305628)
Laptops is usually considered mobile, and there Intel is king. The OP is right that low power has been Intel focus for the last few years which benefits both laptops and servers.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by CoolGuySteve on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @09:07AM (#12304347)
The package size for mobile chips is also shrinking (and presumably die size as well). For example the Skylake Core M package is half the size of the Broadwell Core M according to Wikipedia (die size is listed as TBD).

Aside from the size benefits for board layout, a smaller die would let them get more CPUs from a wafer while a lack of competition in the mobile x86 space lets them charge the same amount for each one.

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