Intel is still incentivized to provide much higher performance CPUs to the market because they compete with themselves - they want to encourage upgrades.<p>What you&#x27;re seeing here is beginning of the end of Moore&#x27;s Law.  Dennard scaling is dead and that will limit performance going forward.<p>The implications are huge for the computer industry.  As Bob Colwell liked to say - imagine if Moore&#x27;s law ended in the year 2000.  We&#x27;d never have smartphones.