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SamFam

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  1. Agree
    SamFam reacted to grimreeper132 in Why are intel SSDs so expensive?   
    because
    A) intel tax
    B) all the SSD companies have agreed to make them expensive, there is no way that they are that any where near that expensive to make
    C) because intel know people think it's name means quality, and so people are willing to pay that.
    D) because consumers who buy them are stupid and don't realise you can get cheaper else where
     
    think that's all of them.
  2. Agree
    SamFam reacted to reniat in Why are intel SSDs so expensive?   
    A huge part of the disparity in performance gains from skylake to kaby lake vs haswell to skylake was due to being a lithography shrink. Both skylake and kaby lake have a lithography of 14nm, while haswell was 22nm. That shrink results in a pretty significant performance gain.

    It's the same as when the haswell line came out compared to the ivy bridge chips at the time. the difference between the 3770k and 4770k is pretty minimal, because those were both 22nm lithographies (see a pattern here?)
     
    So while competition is ALWAYS good, it's not simply intel being lazy. Getting smaller is harder now, and it might not be until the 9th generation chips that we see another shrink to 10nm.
     
    tl;dr, the lame performance gains from skylake to kaby lake are much more likely to be a result of being a "tock" on the same lithography vs just intel being lazy.
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    SamFam reacted to Natsoup in Why are intel SSDs so expensive?   
    How is that relevant to this thread lol
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    SamFam got a reaction from Natsoup in Why are intel SSDs so expensive?   
    Someone needs to take the rod out of their arse.......  
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