http://hothardware.com/news/intel-reacting-to-amd-ryzen-apparently-cutting-prices-on-core-i7 The i7 6700k dropping from $400.oo to just $260.oo before the AMD Ryzen even comes on the market is a sight for sore eyes and something many have been dreaming about for the last five years. Its about the best all around cpu available for home use and video games with enough cores to be able to download crap in the background or whatever while your do other things without missing a beat and has finally come down into a more consumer friendly price range. How much more they might adjust their prices is anyone guess, but you can be pretty sure Intel already has a decent idea of what ryzen is capable of putting out and this is their way of getting an early start on remaining competitive in the market. Intel's next move is to put out chips that use HM2 memory and their own Optane or 3DX-point sometime later this year or next and AMD will do the same with its own processors giving us a better idea of how they compare. That will signal the beginning of the memory and AI wars when all bets are off. Like an abacus, the memory and processing, input and output, are one and the same process for the synapses in our brain making them as efficient as possible for anything their size and the chip manufactures have already pretty much maxed out how fast their processors can go using silicon and are now racing towards developing the technology to imitate the efficiency of the brain, but these first chips coming out will be their compromises on the way towards achieving that lofty goal. Essentially, we are about to see the next microprocessor revolution start with one of the first implications being that countless consumer products should all rapidly become much cheaper, durable, efficient, and powerful. Things like the hardware for $700.oo phones and home computers should come down dramatically in price with the only question remaining at this time being exactly how soon and how fast and, until they release the next generation chips, that's just impossible to say. What people will be paying more for in the future is all the AI and memory built into their devices and other features like cameras they might include just as already happens to be the case with cellphones. The cameras and everything else will also come down in price and the technology will improve dramatically. For example, there is no reason your cellphone cannot contain a flat lens that is merely mm thick, but can zoom in on the horizon as if it is a three foot long telescope. As the computing power goes up and the prices come down its difficult to say what kind of technology the industry will invest in next.
