Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
I just hope 14nm turns out better than 22nm. 22nm made Intel improvement over their early product seem substandard for the enthusiast compared to their earlier efforts.

Ivy-bridge and haswell clock worse than their predecessors(particularly percentage wise). I just just hope the problems associated with going smaller, don't become even more pronounced at 14nm. If it does become worse, there won't be a point even buying K series processors anymore.

Intel is their own worst enemy now. AMD hasn't really competing with them for a while now and the lack of improvement's on their own side just doesn't give incentive to upgrade. If you have a Sandybridge, you have had no incentive to upgrade on the desktop platform at all(mobiles been a different story from the increases in GPU performance and better power consumption). Unless 14nm works out, I don't see broadwell bringing the performance either.

So does this mean waiting for skylake which is 2 years from now if we want a real incentive from Sandy bridge?

I think 14nm is what makes or breaks, CPU sales, if Intel architecture remains improving at the rate it has lately.
I think we are at the point, or getting to the point of very little returns based on this architecture. A whole new design of the CPU itself maybe needed. I'm just not holding out, thinking the move to 14nm is going to yield anything new as far as a big leap in performance is concerned.