I think it involves a sketchy south east Asian air-conditioner.
And a big reason for that has been Intel’s refusal to increase core counts in consumer hardware. They were still shipping 2 core CPUs without multiple threads until months ago.
But as performance gains have slowed for CPUs multithreading and using more cores is becoming more and more common. Like that’s the lazy take on CPUs for gaming. Single thread is everything, games don’t multithreading, And dont use more than x cores. But x has gone up rapidly the past few years, And more and more games are being built to scale with threads and cores. There’s just only do many places to improve performance.
And at this point the entire server market has moved to as many efficient. Often kinda slow. Cores at you can cram in a chip. Which is why those ARM chips often sound so attractive. The server market is the bigger profit sector. But for one reason or anothet it seems like the ARM chips just can’t cut it. On paper it’s great. Very low power, very low heat, small so you can cram a ton of them in. All of the cores all of the time. But it never seems to shake out in practice.
