The worst PC components in existence?

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NaturalViolence Wrote:Everyone says this but based on what I've read from the engineers who worked on it it seems more like they didn't think the IPC would go down much if at all.

Well, have you read anything from the period? Take this for example - http://www.anandtech.com/show/858/2 The author actually complains that the GameCube takes an IPC short pipeline approach instead of a long pipeline one! The prevailing thought at the time, from everything I've seen, was that IPC was irrelevant when you could just go to higher and higher clocks.

As for leakage, there are many types of leakage, but everything I've read says that they did not expect any leakage to happen as the manufacturing process became smaller. Do you have anything saying otherwise?

NaturalViolence Wrote:AMD may be worse than Intel but they're still above everyone else.

That isn't really true anymore... AMD has been stuck on 28nm for some time, while TSMC and Samsung are making ARM chips at 14nm! At this point, with the same manufacturing size Intel still has an IPC lead, but if the ARM fabs reach 7nm while Intel is still at 14nm, they could finally outpace Intel!