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It simply wasn't competitive. Beside, whould you like to pay $1,172 each at a single quantity for its 10Ghz clock supporting socket?
But Fig 6 shows even worse restriction. That one where Prescott failed. No more reduction of power consumed per logic operation !.
Thus, We have to search for a technological way to jump over that latest road block. However, one trivial solution, Intel did, is to adequately reduce processor clock. That will keep rising power consumption bill in tolerable margins. Thus idea on rise of core number with new generations is simply a new Intel's blunder.
Number of cores will rise, but their clock will fall. How your single thread applications performance needs will fit in that calculus?
No way!
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