chickenballs :
yes thats called progress
by your logic intel should charge tens of thousands for a 4 core cpu because its so much faster than the Pentium Pro from 1996 which had a msrp of several thousands of dollars
Intel made those CPUs on basically the same process as Skylake. Adding cores uses more die space. While one might expect a process node to get cheaper over time, it's still probably unreasonable to expect they'll give you so much more die area for free. In fact, due their problems with 10 nm, and competitive pressures forcing them to ship more large-die CPUs (not only in the desktop and laptop markets, but also their HEDT are now using the LCC die), they are facing a well-publicized supply crunch, causing the effective cost of 14 nm die area to go
up.
The way that faster & more sophisticated chips have become/remained affordable is primarily due to process node shrinks.
chickenballs :
and yet you are defending them
how uh nonsensical ;-)
What I'm doing is trying to highlight the relevant facts of the matter. It's not necessarily taking sides to simply list the factors that might be motivating or forcing a party to act in a certain way.
What's nonsensical is your selective reading of the facts and recent events. Either you're not very well-informed, or you're just trying to score cheap points. Neither puts you in a good light, here.