Because the compute power for consumer CPU nowadays is good enough, the effort has been in reducing energy consumption. But if you look at the server / workstation side, you can get 20+ cores in a single dice.
Good enough relative to the competition perhaps.
Nowadays the CPU is the bottle-neck even when surfing the web and using simple (electron) text editors.
But that's not really a CPU problem but a software problem. And faster CPUs won't fix it, due to Wirth's Law.
Anything built with Electron is the anathema of simple.
Re:Is it time for open processors?
by imtringued on Saturday January 20, 2018 @05:19AM
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If you consider core count desktop CPUs have had massive increases in performance in the last year and will get another massive increase when 7nm arrives.
Not that core count is everything but consumer desktop CPUs have stagnated quite a bit. Here's to hoping AMD stirs it up a bit.