Comment by m0zg

It's just bizarre to watch how once unassailable Intel is totally floundering in multiple aspects of their main business. I wanted to upgrade my aging Core i7 workstation and looked into the current Intel HEDT lineup. Only 14nm, and even without Spectre/Meltdown mitigations the chips are way slower unless you can use AVX512. Ended up buying Threadripper 3970X with a quad-GPU capable board, even though the CPU is _more_ expensive than anything HEDT that Intel currently sells.