Intel Isn't Living In The Real World

[RolloTheGreat]

My point is that Intel is competing with themselves and they're not doing a very good job at it.  People just aren't going to upgrade for a 15% performance improvement even after 5 years of new products.  They need to do something more drastic like I am suggesting.  No developers are going to optimize games and apps for 8 cores until we finally have some decent CPUs that can do it.  It's the whole chicken and egg thing.  Also, there are a ton of applications that benefit from more cores.  Go look at benchmark comparisons between an i5 and an i7.  There are definitely uses, and 8 real cores would give an even bigger boost.

Also, Intel would sell quad core i3s like hotcakes.  They wouldn't be able to keep them on the shelves.

My point is you're basically saying,"As a gamer schoolteacher, I feel I know how to run a CPU company better than the most successful cpu maker on the planet. They don't know, I do.".


It's possible, but is it likely?


A. I've read articles about how more cores only lends itself to certain kinds of apps that can use parallel processing and that only certain aspects of games (like AI) benefit from it at all. Intel could easily 8 core chips, but they probably know better than us just how much of a niche market that is.

B. You keep mentioning quad core i3s, but isn't that what a i5 is?

C. On the increase per year, one of two thing is true. Either they can't do better, or they can, and are bleeding out little improvements to milk the market.

Either way, I don't care. For $300, my 4790K is just a super fast stock cpu.