Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
Yes , for me, it will be failure if it cant reach the same IPC as its predecessor, same as P4 was compared to P3. Because every singel speed demon design for the consumer market was a failure. ST performance is still of significant relevance for the Consumer market.
Even if it achieves higher performance than 4C/6C IB via more cores/caches/ISA extensions and clockspeed?
BTW consumer market is changing ,although the pace is rather slow.Give it a year or so and it will get better. More and more applications are being designed with multicore in mind,it's just a matter of time when we will have more MT aware apps versus ST ones. Also,we will have GPU compute powers put to good use. This will pave a way for hybrid CPU/GPU chips in 4-5 years and they will be able to use that enormous compute power for client and server workloads.