Is Intel gonna make cheaper quad core cpu's?

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Intel quad cores today are expensive, remember when 2 cores was enough for gaming? Were they cheap? Or was the price the same as an i5 today?
I'm kinda hoping Intel would make affordable quad cores. Shadow of Mordor's minimum requirement is an i5. I can feel next gen getting closer and my PC need upgrading.
So when an i5 is going to be the standard minimum requirement for future games, is PC gaming going to be for people who can afford it or will Intel's i5 be cheaper?
 
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Since I started owning personal computers way back in around 1991, I've mostly always paid around $1,200 for a desktop and a little more (maybe $1,800) for a laptop. So while prices remained mostly constant, the power and performance have vastly and immeasurably increased.

My first computer had an Intel 286 16MHz processor and a gigantic 80 Mega bytes hard drive. I don't' recall the RAM. Today's computer is a quad-core Intel Core i5 3750K, with 32 Giga bytres of RAM ( so the hard drive of the old system can get lost in the rounding errors of my current system RAM) and I have a 4Terrabyte HDD and a 250GB SSD in this machine. Neither of those drives will know if I add or remove 80Megabytes from them.

FOr manufacturers, it often doesn't...
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Since I started owning personal computers way back in around 1991, I've mostly always paid around $1,200 for a desktop and a little more (maybe $1,800) for a laptop. So while prices remained mostly constant, the power and performance have vastly and immeasurably increased.

My first computer had an Intel 286 16MHz processor and a gigantic 80 Mega bytes hard drive. I don't' recall the RAM. Today's computer is a quad-core Intel Core i5 3750K, with 32 Giga bytres of RAM ( so the hard drive of the old system can get lost in the rounding errors of my current system RAM) and I have a 4Terrabyte HDD and a 250GB SSD in this machine. Neither of those drives will know if I add or remove 80Megabytes from them.

FOr manufacturers, it often doesn't pay to reduce the cost of a product so much as it pays them to add function and capability to the product.

THink of it this way. You have to pay $50 per CPU for research and development, and another $5 for manufacturing and maybe $20 for marketing (packaging, distribution, advertising). SO the costs on the chip is maybe $75. SO even if the chip does nothing, you can't sell it for less than $75. double the power of the chip and that may cost $10. So the $85 chip is 2x the power of the $75 chip.

Now in 5 years time the technology is cheaper, so Intel might sell more powerful low-end chips coming off fully amortized fab lines. Still, will it go much below the current anniversary Pentium price of $75? I think not.
 
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The quad cores are affordable. You can get a Haswell Core i5-4460, a quad core part, for $189 currently.

Want it even cheaper? The current Atom parts come as a quad core in some cases.

If you are waiting for a $99 Core i5, that is not going to happen anytime soon (or ever).
 
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