I somewhat know the history of intel desktop cpu. Pentium 3 was good. Then a series of dogs. Core 2 good, intel good again.

However. I am completely ignorant of intel mobile cpu from Core 2 time to present. Were there particularly outstanding intel mobile cpu in the last 10 years?

 

Core 2 was designed in Israel and superceded P4 (NetBurst) architecture. All desktop/mobile processors after that were derivatives of that design (excluding Larrabee, Itanium, Atom et. al); including mobile parts (they're just in different packages, often de-featured for that price point).

iCore is up to 8th generation now. Each gives incremental performance improvement over its predecessor.

 

iCore is up to 8th generation now. Each gives incremental performance improvement over its predecessor.

It’s 9 now.

Oops, no. I thought i9 meant ninth generation but it does not.

 

It’s 9 now.

What's the 9th generation? Cannon Lake is 10nm and only shipping in low volume. Intel calls that 8th generation.

 

What's the 9th generation? Cannon Lake is 10nm and only shipping in low volume. Intel calls that 8th generation.

Dang you’re fast. Yeah, I amended my post.

 

Dang you’re fast. Yeah, I amended my post.

I just bought my daughter an Ultrabook with 7th generation; getting an 8th generation CPU wasn't worth $300 more.

For the vast majority of users, generation is just a marketing point. My Arrandale processor from 2010 is more than enough for my computing needs. Had an Ultrabook with a quad core i7, but it crapped out after a couple years...

 

I just bought my daughter an Ultrabook with 7th generation; getting an 8th generation CPU wasn't worth $300 more.

For the vast majority of users, generation is just a marketing point. My Arrandale processor from 2010 is more than enough for my computing needs. Had an Ultrabook with a quad core i7, but it crapped out after a couple years...

My 7-yr old MacBook has a quad i7 and is fine for even very demanding applications. My understanding is that a main advantage of newer chips is lower power usage.

 

My 7-yr old MacBook has a quad i7 and is fine for even very demanding applications. My understanding is that a main advantage of newer chips is lower power usage.

For mobile, they cherry pick the low power parts. They likely also use die that have bad cores/cache.

Each generation includes architectural improvements that offer modest improvement.

After 8th generation, they'll be immune to Spectre and Meltdown.