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We spent years with quad core i7 processors being the norm, with higher core count processors being locked to Intels HEDT platform. When Ryzen came out all of a sudden the i7 8700k was able to be a 6 core processor instead of a 4 core. Then it wasn’t until Alder lake released in November of last year that we finally got desktop processors that weren’t on 14nm+++ (or however many + it was at). That’s not including the fact that you could overclock all the initial Ryzen processors, while Intel locked you to specials skus of CPU and motherboard

[greggsy]

It’s basically innovation 101: don’t spend more money developing something if you know you customers needs are already met.

They likely knew what apple were up to with efficiency cores several years ago, and only decided to accelerate manufacturing of Alder lake once they realised the market was cool with that form or architecture.

[1_player]

"Innovation 101: don't innovate if there's no demand for" doesn't sound like innovation to me.

[touisteur]

Putting effort where demand is, doesn't seem like the stupidest strategy to me. Creating demand for a new kind of product or service is nice, but reaching a market where their needs are, seems clever.

What baffles me about this 'innovate on something else than peak perf' is... What did they innovate on massively instead then, if not that? Apart from AVX512?

[q-big]

> Putting effort where demand is, doesn't seem like the stupidest strategy to me.

It can indeed be a sensible business strategy, but it will much less likely lead to remarkable innovations.