Quote Originally Posted by zanzabar View Post

why boo, this is not the only platform intel has, and the only thing keeping the higher end chips higher end right now is NV. sure amd has a beast for VM farms but intel owns that with marketing and IT stupidity so the only thing that they have now is to keep server loads in x86 instead of cuda/opencl. this is also the base of multi cpu servers so why would they go for 4 slow parts when you could have 2 fast parts do the same work load.
I imagine it would still be a selling point "cut electricity running costs by 50%" It still puts pressure on the opposition. The move would take 1-2 generations, then performance starts increasing again with successive releases.