A 4 Core from Intel dollar wise hasn't changed price in years, it will do what its always done and that is good enough for none professionals.
Aside from the fact it isn't true, that itself, what you're suggesting is a MASSIVE change to the past.
We didn't get 5-10% performance increase at the same price every generation.
You would have a single core at 2Ghz for say £200, then 2 years later it's a 3.5Ghz version at £200, with a 2Ghz version of the new chip down at say £80.
THen you had a single core P4 at 3.5Ghz at £200, the next year you had a dual core P4 at 3.2Ghz for £200, with the single core down to £100.
Then you had a dual core Conroe at about the same price but maybe twice as fast, with the dual core P4 dropped to £100. Then you had a quad core i5 at £200, etc, etc.
Stagnation is new, you're arguing that it's fine and that getting the same quad core with barely differing performance is the norm, when it isn't.
A long while back we should have gone from quad to 8 core at the SAME price, with quad core moving down a slot. Now GPU kinda screwed that, as it took up half the die(eventually, between 20-30% earlier on. So going from quad core cpu one year to quad core APU the next year at the same price made sense... that one time that happened, but the following new chip on a new process should have moved to 6-8 core + gpu at the same price. We never made that step, that is the rip off step where they just reduced the size of the core, increased margin and had everyone pay the same amount.
Stagnation in prices isn't good, it's not the norm, it fights against the concept of semi conductor industry. Everywhere else memory capacity doubled every couple of years, from 128MB chips for gpus, to 256mb, to 512MB chips at roughly the same cost.
People constantly use inflation as an argument for prices, inflation can be used to measure the fair cost of milk, a commodity that has no significant change in production price over the years, it isn't remotely applicable to electronics. The same way a 4k tv now costs the same as a 1080p screen, and more recently a 4k hdr tv has replaced 4k tv pricing from a couple of years ago. Electronics production capability moves forwards and makes quad cores cost a different and lesser amount with every new process.
