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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Not exactly exponential anymore. For most folks, we already have excess CPU power available for desktop computers and laptops. Outside of benchmarking and specialized applications, you'd be hard pressed to notice a difference between a $1000 hexa-core Core i7 Sandy Bridge-EX and a $50 dual-core Celeron Sandy Bridge. The move in x86 right now is more towards integration and lower power consumption.
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Yes, still exponentially. See Moore's Law.
Moore postulated that the number of transistors that can be put on a chip doubles every 2 years. Intel Corollary is that CPU performance doubles every 18 months due to increases in speed and transistors.
And that has been occuring since the 80s.
No arguement that most users could not tell the difference between the high end of today and the middle ground from several years ago, but the high end of today is just as far above the high end of 2 years ago as any 2 year period of computers.