Re:Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU ...
by mtgx on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @02:08PM
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> 1. Why doesn't Intel actually name the chips to make them clearer?
It's on purpose to trick "normal" consumers into buying lower-end chips thinking they get higher-end performance. It actually tricks a lot of tech-savvy people, too.
Examples:
1) switching up the Core architecture in Celerons and Pentiums for the Atom architecture (but keeping retail/OEM prices the same)
2) making "dual-core" Core i7 chips for laptops (what's the point of all the different variants of Core i5 then ?!)
3) replacing H series in most laptops with lower-performance U series, and soon we're going to witness the switch to the even lower-end (more throttling ~1.5GHz base speed) Y-series
4) they've just started calling the Y-series-based Core M5 and Core M7, Core i5 and Core i7, also to trick consumers into thinking they're getting "Core i5/i7 performance"
I'm hoping AMD's Ryzen + Qualcomm's (fully) Windows 10 capable Qualcomm 835 chip will put some sense into Intel to stop ripping off customers like this, but I think they'll only do it kicking and screaming. In other words don't expect much better "value" from Intel chips at least until 2019-2020. They'll probably just wait for their 2020 streamlined/lower cost architecture before they drop prices too much, unless the competition is rapidly eating away at Intel's market share by then.
It's on purpose to trick "normal" consumers into buying lower-end chips thinking they get higher-end performance. It actually tricks a lot of tech-savvy people, too.
Examples:
1) switching up the Core architecture in Celerons and Pentiums for the Atom architecture (but keeping retail/OEM prices the same)
2) making "dual-core" Core i7 chips for laptops (what's the point of all the different variants of Core i5 then ?!)
3) replacing H series in most laptops with lower-performance U series, and soon we're going to witness the switch to the even lower-end (more throttling ~1.5GHz base speed) Y-series
4) they've just started calling the Y-series-based Core M5 and Core M7, Core i5 and Core i7, also to trick consumers into thinking they're getting "Core i5/i7 performance"
I'm hoping AMD's Ryzen + Qualcomm's (fully) Windows 10 capable Qualcomm 835 chip will put some sense into Intel to stop ripping off customers like this, but I think they'll only do it kicking and screaming. In other words don't expect much better "value" from Intel chips at least until 2019-2020. They'll probably just wait for their 2020 streamlined/lower cost architecture before they drop prices too much, unless the competition is rapidly eating away at Intel's market share by then.