AMD stopped caring about the market, Intel has no competition - there is a regular monopoly in the highend desktop/workstation segment, and nothing happend, as Intel is company from the United States of America.... Money makes the world go around, and Intel making money, is USA making money = market forces dont really care...
Whom looses here? Well the consumers.
With no competition in the workstation market, Intel is milking the market, making tiny upgrades, heck last couple of years even downgrades for us!
A good i7-2600K/i7-2700K, as in a decent overclock on watercooling, is STILL better than a decent watercooled i7-4770K.... We are addicted to new technology, mooooar power, but the market just does not offer us such....
Sure, there is still competition in graphics, nVidia and AMD fighting - however, its not enough for everyone, hence the huge fallback in interest.
Also; XS has a bunch of competitive sites, and it seems that FUGGER isnt too sad about XS being less hip than a few years ago.... I used to visit XS many times a day, these days twice a week is enough to please my appetite...
I might be wrong, I might be foolish, but thats what I believe.
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