Arachnotronic
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Price cuts would be good, but I want to see improvements in single core performance, which I hope these new processes deliver in a significant way.
A great way to improve single-core performance is through architecture. Apple A11 Bionic big core at 2.4GHz offers similar single-thread performance to 4GHz Zen or 3.4GHZ Kabylake, and it does so at a fraction of the power that either of those two state-of-the-art x86 cores do.
What you should really be hoping for is continued architectural innovation from the x86 companies because today's processes are mainly improving in density and power consumption rather than peak frequency.