Scoobes said:
Yeah, not having any innovation for years due to a lack of competition has really made the desktop CPU sector stagnate. Basically releasing the same CPUs with incremental improvements whilst charging a fortune for each iteration... really glad AMD are upping their game with this. |
I don't think that's the issue. IBM and others would bite them in the ass over their most profitable markets (servers and HPC) if Intel were to get sloppy. Intel actually spends billions on research & development. Literally orders of magniture more than they used to spend on the 90's - though admittedly, most of it goes to their foundries. It's just that diminishing returns have kicked in hard, specially for single-thread performance. It's even more evident on their own stuff, bloated with x86 code from so many generations that it was possible all along someone could beat them with an all-new architecture. Which could be what is happening right now.
