Single threaded performance has gone up but not by that much. It is due to some pipelining, some reduced latency, some SIMD, some deeper reorder buffers, some more cache, better prefetching and probably other factors I&#x27;m forgetting. All have diminishing returns and Intel has no competition.<p>Cores have gone up, just not in the narrow spectrum of consumer processors since not a lot of software takes advantage of them.  Knights Landing will have 72 cores, all 4 way hyper threaded, all out of order cores.  GPU&#x27;s internal cores have gone up as well.<p>Transistor budgets haven&#x27;t stalled quite yet but lots of cheap journalism proclaims the end of moore&#x27;s law because of consumer chip benchmarks.  Intel has a roadmap to 7nm which will quadruple the amount of transistors we have now, after that it is unclear.