[OT] Windows dying

[codephantom]

On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 08:53:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> No, the reason they don't improve is consumers don't need the 
> performance.
>

I don't agree. Consumers would welcome more performance - and 
many of us 'need' it too.

But cpu's have hit the heat barrier, and so manufacturers tend to 
focus on more cores, better caching algorithms, and such...

but I am sure that consumers would find a 10GHz quad core 
processor far more useful than a 4Ghz 24 core one.

Then you have the challenges of redesigning programming languages 
and software development methodologies to take better advantage 
of the multi-core thing...

There is also the problem of no real competition against Intel, 
so real innovation is not occuring as rapidly as it once did.

What we really need, is to get rid of that heat barrier - which 
means lots and lots  of money (potentially billions) into new 
research... and without competition, why should Intel bother? 
They can just do a few minor tweaks here and there, increment a 
number, and call the tweaked i7 ..the i9.