they didnt need upgrading because they sat mostly still till amd caught up.
they intentionally made the consumer platform stay with quad cores for over 8 generations till AMD came around with Ryzen Gen 1 to be remotely competitive.
theres a reason why 5% per generation was a joke for almost a decade.
they didnt need upgrading because they sat mostly still till amd caught up.
they intentionally made the consumer platform stay with quad cores for over 8 generations till AMD came around with Ryzen Gen 1 to be remotely competitive.
theres a reason why 5% per generation was a joke for almost a decade.
This, but I’ll also never feel sorry for them because of the way they previously intentionally nerfed AMD’s processor performance in applications using their compiler (i.e. a lot of big applications at the time) by checking if the the CPU was made by Intel and disabling optimizations if it wasn’t.
That was some serious monopolistic, anti-competitive bullshit.