Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cancelled

Re:Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cance... by ocschwar on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:18PM (#14133158)

If Intel can't offer more compelling improvements in watts per operation, I would be very disappointed.

We know fab sizing is going to stop being worth it. But bigger dies, with better heat dissipation, and processors that better fit today's use cases, all that should be within Intel's capabilities.

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Re:Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cance... by jacquesm on Monday April 17, 2017 @05:16PM (#14134482)

> If Intel can't offer more compelling improvements in watts per operation, I would be very disappointed.

There are some pretty hard physical boundaries. Businesses write off their hardware in 3 or 5 years, it's rare to see a machine older than that. But there may come a time when a 10 year old computer is just as powerful as one you buy today. The replacement market is what's driving Intel's revenues for a very large part and if that should ever stop then it probably wouldn't be a great idea to hold a lot of intel stock.

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Re:Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cance... by niklasrde on Monday April 17, 2017 @05:44PM (#14134681)

> it's rare to see a machine older than that

Oh I wish. Oh I wish..

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Re:Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cance... by asah on Monday April 17, 2017 @11:57PM (#14136364)

> there may come a time when a 10 year old computer is just as powerful as one you buy today

You mean like my 2012 laptop, upgraded to 16GB RAM, which is perfectly good at web browsing, Google docs and html/python/postgres dev ?

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Re:Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cance... by ocschwar on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @03:42PM (#14142206)

Or my BeagleBone card, which is now my home data server.

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