Well

I think many are in this boat

Cause upgrading from an Intel platform to another Intel platform doesn't really give alot of performance boost

Alot of people are still sitting on Sandy Bridge rigs

I looked at Intel performance gains

minimal

It was so nice to just buy old server CPUs when they got dumped

And get the most awesome H.265 encoding speed ever

It doesn't, since Intel's been focusing the majority of their R&D on ***muh optimization***

for great value

so, power efficiency

But Intel has decreased nm, consumption haven't they

I believe so

I'd also recommend AMD APU's in a heartbeat for HTPC builds though*

Lappies get most of the performance gains of Intel iterations

Yeah, can just see this comfy mini-ITX with AMD APU

But the desktop side is very bleak, and only AMD can bring a real gamechanger

But would be much more sweet with Zen/Polaris APU

If they don't, we'll sit on the same performance bubble for the next decade or so

yep

What I hope for

Is that we change architecture, and like with mobile CPUs, sees a whole bunch of companies competing

Intel did it right, so they deserve the money too

can you really compain and say hey please take back your archievements?

Well

Intel gave rise to the cheap Chink tablets

and be slower like AMD

Is to design a revolutionary mechanical exoskeleton using a networked system of electrostatic coupling to be more efficient than ever before, at a much lighter weight?

or is that just me

With their attempt to buy into the market

heh

They failed though

Dropped the Atoms

It doesn't matter for us

I really wanted a chink developer board with Atom

they sold $20 CPUs with normal arch

b..but ARM CPUs anon

Would make for a sweet dev board

We still got those 90 bucks tablets that are way more powerful than they have the right to be

And the compute sticks

I've got one, an Orange Pi PC powered with shark sdcard