What has happened to Intel lately?

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(10-27-2013, 08:31 AM)drhycodan Wrote: Ever since the original Core i7, these newer 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gen i7's barely improve upon the original i7 in performance. I remember when the Core 2 came out, it was like day and night compared to a Pentium D/4. Then Core i7 came out and it also offered a substantial improvement over the Core 2's. But since then, the newer Core i7's barely offer any improvement. When is Intel going to release something that offers as much an improvement in IPC as the original i7 did?

They have been focusing since the second generation of i7 on reducing power consumption and increasing integrated gpu performance more than increasing cpu power. They moved all their focus to more mobile offerings and i think that the lacking competition from AMD helped establish that. If AMD was competitive they wouldn't be so lax regarding their cpu performance. Having established their dominance in cpu performance then they shifted their focus to areas they lacked, integrated gpu performance and ultra mobile, tablet, etc. presence.