they didnt need upgrading because they sat mostly still till amd caught up.
they intentionally made the consumer platform stay with quad cores for over 8 generations till AMD came around with Ryzen Gen 1 to be remotely competitive.
theres a reason why 5% per generation was a joke for almost a decade.
sleepydragn1@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This, but I’ll also never feel sorry for them because of the way they intentionally nerfed AMD’s processor performance in applications using their compiler (i.e. most big applications at the time) by checking if the the CPU was made by Intel and disabling optimizations if it wasn’t.
That was some serious monopolistic, anti-competitive bullshit.