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Re:Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cance... by rbanffy on Monday April 17, 2017 @06:15PM (#14134896)
It's not unlike designing a race car. You can put a monster engine, but it'll add weight, require more fuel, add inertia which will demand a more complicated suspension and wider, heavier tires to be able to do fast curves, and so on.

The careful balance of every aspect of a modern CPU is an art very few people practice. I'd say IBM and Sun have't left this game just yet for very high performance platforms, but don't expect a Core i3 coming out of either.

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Re:Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cance... by dom0 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:50AM (#14138049)
True, IBM and Fujitsu/Sun are still competitive in some niches, but not on power efficiency and not for general purpose application. Last time I looked IBM was 3-5 times worse perf/Watt in SAP benchmarks. Of course IBM is still an option in these specialized applications if you just need that raw power, but no one's going to run a data centre on that silicon.
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