> CPUs aren't really getting any faster in single-threaded performance.
They are, though slowly. The skylakes are a bit faster than the broadwells are a bit faster than the haswells, etc.
They are, though slowly. The skylakes are a bit faster than the broadwells are a bit faster than the haswells, etc.
The old CPU's sharing a name with the new CPU's makes them sound like they're still up-to-date. Which I guess is great for making you feel better about your old device? This seems potentially detrimental to sales though, so I still don't understand the impetus for marketing them like that.
It's an entirely usual thing to maintain marketing names between generations because the marketing name is rather a description of the target audience than of the concrete feature set or technical specs.