I think part of the accelerated path will be that we are reaching the limits of 'easy' (in the billions already) process improvements.
When everyone and his dog has 14nm you can't rely on process to keep you ahead, Ryzen has shown this partially recently, Broadwell level IPC on an Octacore processor for less than Intel sells a Quad core.
It's going to be a bloodbath as the middle eats into the top.
When everyone and his dog has 14nm you can't rely on process to keep you ahead, Ryzen has shown this partially recently, Broadwell level IPC on an Octacore processor for less than Intel sells a Quad core.
It's going to be a bloodbath as the middle eats into the top.