For the average individual, either at work or at home, whether mobile or desktop, quad core and above is goofy. Like the Megahertz madness, this will eventually become obvious. Intel would like us to miss this point for as long as possible, and emphasize a new round of "core wars", since if it is really still about single threaded IPC * clockspeed for single and dual core, parity is restored in Q3 2007 and there are no obvious magic bullets waiting in the wings... If CPUs stop offering meaningful improvements to the vast majority of users starting mid next year, commoditization sets in, and the producer best able to support low ASPs gains share. Wonder who that is?
I liked better the point that you made earlier:
"Intel is currently at an architectural and graphics sophistication disadvantage to exploit anything other than core count, which is their "new MHz". Heterogeneous cores, accelerators, fast on die interconnects, and graphics sophistication are the key to the next advances in both non-server and server processors, and AMD is leading this charge."
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