Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU dead?
Hmm...sure puts all the criticism Apple got for <i>not</i> waiting for Kaby Lake for its MacBook Pros into perspective.<p>We are in an effective post-Moore's law world, and have been for a couple of years.  Yes, we can still put more transistors on the chip, but we are pretty much done with single core performance, at least until some really big breakthrough.<p>On the other hand, as another poster pointed out, we really don't <i>need</i> all that much more performance, as most of the performance of current chips isn't actually put to good use, but instead squandered[1].  (My 1991 NeXT Cube with 25 MHz '40 was pretty much as good for word processing as anything I can get now, and you could easily go back further).<p>Most of the things that go into squandering CPU don't parallelize well, so removing the bloat is actually starting to become cheaper again than trying to combat it with more silicon.  And no, I am not just saying that to promote my upcoming book[2], I've actually been saying the same thing since before I started writing it.<p>Interesting times.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/spending-moores-dividend/" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/spendin...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.amazon.com/MACOS-PERFORMANCE-TUNING-Developers-Library/dp/0321842847" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/MACOS-PERFORMANCE-TUNING-Developers-L...</a>