evernessince You are dreaming if you think Intel has anything good coming out in the PC CPU market in 2018. They have been on largely the same architecture for a long time now and have been struggling to get IPC improvements for awhile now. I wouldn't expect higher frequencies either, 5.0 GHz seems to be the cutoff point for them.



It will take Intel all of 2018 just to get yields of coffee lake up, let alone their next gen processors. Intel can't really afford to play core wars with their current design vs AMD. It costs Intel much more to produce it's larger dies than it does AMD with their multi-die design and not to mention the yields of Ryzen are much much better.

Intel have improved their arc (skl-x) but did it help performance:NODoes it help modularity - Yes.Is it near the engineering perfection of Ryzen - NO, it's simply multiple dies still thus it's kinda useless for Intel still and to tackle performance uplift while improving modularity is a bit of a handful.Ryzen was made with modularity in mind, it's the entire strategy of the company and been so for a long long time while they've not been fortunate they finally got a CEO which knows what matters.Modularity was an asset they had from the phenom days and it's just slightly improved whilst performance was missing.Intel has performance but needs modularity.Unless AMD has a crappy deal with glofo they can outprice any Intel part due to their modular design.What does it mean for end user? - Nothing much really, but AMD can play the price game still and make moneyAMD can at least refresh a entire lineup in short time and feed enough parts for each segment cause they only have to make a single part which gives us a stiff competition if Intel is up to the task.