[citation][nom]demonhorde665[/nom]The nubmers arnt that stunning really , I'm more stunned by the fact that intel still has yet to release an 8 core cpu for general consumers. normally an AMD fan because of pricing , but i'd love to see what an intel 8 core could do. i8 any one ?[/citation]
I agree. I would love for them to be more daring and release an i7 (or whatever number) 8 core for us. And if they want to be scanty and drop hyper threading on an 8 core, I'll forgive them eventually.
If I remember correctly, the first series of i5 had some of the lower models as dual cores with hyper threading, and now all the standard i5 models are 4 cores. (By standard I do not mean the power saving models in laptops and so on) So Intel are _slowly_ evolving. I really hope that at latest when the generation after haswell comes that we will see the highest i5 with 4 cores and hyper threading, and the highest i3 with 4 pure cores instead of 2 cores and hyper threading. Give us something more juicy than an 8% increase each generation.
I'm a bit whiny I guess, but I continue hoping =)