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by matsemann 2043 days ago
Maybe not 2010, but some time before that it was evident that their architecture couldn't scale. They increased clock rate every year, and hit a wall. My Pentium 4 in 2006 or so still had much more GHz than any CPU I've had since. After hitting the ceiling, they pushed on in that direction for far too long before rethinking the approach, like getting blood from a stone.