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Pemalite said:

zarx said:

With AMD strugling in the high end market with their CPUs the market has really stagnated. I don't really think that is going to change any time soon either, so better settle in for a future of incremental upgrades. At this point the only thing that looks to really shake up CPU performance is a major achitecture change like 3D ICs and stacked DRAM which is still a ways off. Or replacing silicone with something else like graphite or carbon nanotubes but that as a even longer ways off. Unless by some miracle Intel get some real competition soon at the high end it will be the status quo.

Yeah, but Intel wants to make money too, allot of people are hanging off those upgrades untill Haswell-E 8-core/16 thread chips, that's cash Intel misses out on in the mean time.
And lets be frank, Socket 2011 is the enthusiast platform who likes to spend big and has a large profit margin and expects the best.

Interested to see if CGI will keep with his current chip or jumps onto Ivy-Bridge-E.

I just don't think raw performance is a priority for them right now. Idle power draw, improving intergrated graphics, moving more components onto the CPU (voltage regulator) etc And seem happy to just push minor IPC increases. Haswell-E will be more of the same if it's mainstream debut is any indecation.