[EDIT]hmmm.....whats going on at AMD? (and history of 3Dfx Rampage)

[dmcowen674]

^^ I'm just glad I don't have to ditch the entire rig every 3 years, and that GPU's are the only thing that really need ditching every 2-3 years, for the gaming eye-candy lust that we enthusiasts have.

Now, it seems to be all about the small and mobile market, cutting down the power of CPU's to 10W within the next 10 years, with maybe 5% increase in IPC, lol. Then Intel is in trouble and becomes a fabbing company like TSMC or GloFo.

Exactly.

It is a case of the Technology actually hurting itself by getting too powerful.

The same thing is now happening to smartphone sales.

I read something about a 24 core chip now.