On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 08:53:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
No, the reason they don't improve is consumers don't need the performance.
I don't agree. Consumers would welcome more performance - and many of us 'need' it too.
But cpu's have hit the heat barrier, and so manufacturers tend to focus on more cores, better caching algorithms, and such...
but I am sure that consumers would find a 10GHz quad core processor far more useful than a 4Ghz 24 core one.
Then you have the challenges of redesigning programming languages and software development methodologies to take better advantage of the multi-core thing...
There is also the problem of no real competition against Intel, so real innovation is not occuring as rapidly as it once did.
What we really need, is to get rid of that heat barrier - which means lots and lots of money (potentially billions) into new research... and without competition, why should Intel bother? They can just do a few minor tweaks here and there, increment a number, and call the tweaked i7 ..the i9.
