Chip industry had worst sales year since dot-com bubble burst

Re:Chip industry had worst sales year since dot-com bubble b... by Polylactic_acid on Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:26PM (#22261134)

I have an intel chip from 6 years ago and I still feel there is hardly any reason to upgrade. It still does everything I need it to do very well. I upgraded my gpu that was about 5 years old and I saw about 3x the performance.

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Re:Chip industry had worst sales year since dot-com bubble b... by dr_zoidberg on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:17PM (#22263176)

The last few years have been mostly about performance per watt. I changed my notebook a couple of years ago, jumped from an i3 3200 to an i5 7200U. I got 80% better performance (on numerical code) at 15W, instead of 35W for the i3. Unfortunately manufacturers cheaped out on the battery, so I went from 6 cell to 3 cell, for about-ish the same battery life I had on my previous notebook.

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