What's new in CPUs since the 80s? (2015)
my favourite addition since the 80s has been the unrelenting, unquestioned, ubiquitous and permanent inclusion of numerous iterations of poorly planned and executed management engine frameworks designed to completely ablate the user from the experience of general computing in the service of perpetual and mandatory DRM and security theatricality.  the best aspect of this new feature is that not only is your processor effectively indifferent from a rented pressure washer, but on a long enough timeline the indelible omniscient slavemaster to which your IO is subservient can and will always find itself hacked.  One of the biggest features missing from 80s processors was the ability to watch a C level cog from a multinational conglomerate squirm in an overstarched tom ford three piece as tech journalists methodically connect the dots between a corpulent scumbag and a hastily constructed excuse to hobble user freedoms at the behest of the next minions movie to arrive finally at a conclusion that takes said chipmakers stock to the barber.<p>oh and chips come with light up fans and crap now but theres no open standard on how to control the light color so everyone just leaves it in Liberace disco mode so its like a wonderful little rainbow coloured pride parade is marching through my case.