Intel LGA 2011 roadmap : Affordable SNB-E and no LGA 1356

[RPGWiZaRD]

Intel had a nice run with its annual tick-tock strategy since 2006. Unfortunately it looks like 2011 is the year that it finally falls off schedule. No Ivy Bridge in 2011 saddens me, but I must congratulate Intel on keeping up such an aggressive schedule for so long.

Yea I don't have any result tables to look at apart from the quarterly reports which haven't been too shabby but it certainly feels like Intel's tick-tock strategy is doing well and it's something that AMD seems to have a problem keeping up with, feels like Bulldozer has been in development for like forever now so it better be good once it arrives as Intel highspeed train isn't here to stop anytime soon it seems. What this faster development pace means though that we also are looking forward to smaller performance gain per each new generation, like it currently looks like we're usually around 10~20% increase per generation compared to pre-tick-tock era when we could see much higher gains per generation, with that in mind it's quite logical with the relatively small performance gains as of late. AMD doesn't release new generations that often so it'll also have to have bigger performance increases compared to their previous gen. So it's actually a good thing in the end especially for enthusiasts that simply love to play with new stuff, Intel provides more frequent updates while AMD provides more "longer-lasting" products that are also great at release but may not look that impressive towards the end of their time in before a generation change.