Gadgetory

is it not amazing to you that a decade ago when the Pentium 4 processor extreme edition 3.46 gigahertz first launched it debuted around $1000 with the rest of the top tier products falling around six hundred four hundred and 275 dollars and that now in 2014 pricing is still very similar perhaps not on the surface but consider this in the last 10 years average gas prices in the US have gone from under $2 per gallon to around 3.50 cents per gallon with general inflation in the twenty to twenty-five percent range how is it then that has the requisite tools and microprocessor manufacturing facilities also known as fabs continue to increase in cost the processors we use in our devices be they laptops tablets phones or even a hundred other things you wouldn't think of perform better consume less power and are available at when we adjust for inflation the same or lower prices year after year I mean they're still basically layered metal circuits on a peer silicon wafer that's had transistors formed in it so simple right actually no even though many of the raw materials being used are similar the actual device fabrication process has changed dramatically every two years or so truly it's almost like clockwork intel has debuted a new way to test the laws of physics and begin mass production of processors running smaller and smaller transistors every time they shrink things down another notch we say they've moved to a new process node when this happens there are a couple of things that usually occur transistors switch faster this translates to potentially higher clock speeds and performance less current is required for transistor switching which translates into reduced power consumption and the physical area taken up per transistor goes down significantly allowing either what is fundamentally the same processor to be manufactured with less raw material and B therefore lower cost or a better processor to be manufactured with the same raw material at a similar cost so that's all the fuss being made right now about Intel's Core M processor codename Broadwell why the first CPU to be produced using Intel's latest 14 nanometer manufacturing process now architectural II it's not a huge change compared to has well the last generation one which is based on Intel's 22 nanometer manufacturing process but shrinking the size of the transistors allows the quorum to do some pretty amazing stuff including deliver dual-core turbo boost capable CPUs with beefy onboard graphics that have a TDP of four to four and a half Watts low enough for use in two and ones and other ultra-thin mobile devices in the future with felt requiring a cooling fan not to mention better performance better battery life etc and there's more as Intel's capacity at 40 nanometer ramps up we will see this technology deployed in the desktop and server until it's everywhere and then it's time to start the whole process all over again and that is how we keep getting better processors at the same or even lower prices sometimes speaking of better performance is your site slow do your online stores customers or blogs visitors complain that it's ugly people on the Internet sure nice sometimes hey anyway don't worry too much about that because there is an easy solution Squarespace is today's sponsor and these guys kind of kick ass first of all they're just cool guys but I guess that's not really enough reason to give them your money nope you need real reasons Squarespace makes having your own beautiful functional website both easy and affordable head over to squarespace.com slash Linus grab a free two week trial pick one of their fantastic templates that's optimized for desktop or mobile and see if their tools work for you if you're having any trouble they have 24/7 tech support too if you like it make sure you use offer code Linus linked in the video description to save 10% we use it for our company website and we've been incredibly happy with the service and I'm sure you will be too anyway guys thanks for watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment letting me know if you have any comments or suggestions for future fastest possible episodes just like this one and if you did enjoy the video please do give it a share and if you're not subscribed already hit that subscribe button because that will power my turtled rocket ship to the newb if I get lots of them I read it on the internet on someone's very beautiful Squarespace blog