I can understand that product segmentation is vital to increasing profits and thus lining executives' pockets with even more money, that's all fine and dandy, but what I'm concerned about is the pace of adoption of new ISA extensions. At this rate AVX will become standard in years, not to mention AVX2, which gave a lot of the forum members a hard-on. It was also touted as the next big thing in computing. Scanter-gather instructions and auto-vectorization in particular made some members of this very forum ecstatic even more so then FMA. It's a wonder at least to me why Intel doesn't want to encourage the usage of those new extension as much as it can. A mere 10% improvement in IPC coupled with worse overclock-ability in general doesn't exactly drive me to dump my top-of-the-line MOBO and upgrade to a new CPU a motherboard.
PS. There seems to be a scarcity of reviews, the only one I managed to find is on X-bitlabs, but the graphs seem to me to be a bit cluttered. I'd like to see how much IPC improved with graphs next to each other.