Quote Originally Posted by Leibritz View Post
Anyway, speculating gives people something to do while they wait, I don't see any harm done...
Oh, I agree. Speculation by its very nature is fun but problems arise when people base their purchasing decisions on speculations. It also doesn't make any sense to believe in hype and then rant because reality brought things crashing down...

I am not saying this is what's going to happen but people have to remember that massive performance boosts do come with a SIGNIFICANT number of downfalls (die size, power consumption, cost, profit margins, etc) when maintaining a status quo manufacturing process - in this case 40nm.

There isn't a company in this world that could overcome any of these without some kind of miracle product. I am sure we'd all agree that TSMC's 40nm process isn't one that can be refined any more to allow for that kind of genre breaking design revolution.