Intel (and other manufacturers) caters to whatever market segment their customers want. /. has a disproportionate number of people who buy shrink wrapped CPUs, but that's a piddly market. Chip manufacturers sell to computer makers like Dell, H.P., and Apple. If these companies want gaming CPUs, Intel and AMD will sell them gaming CPUs.

All that said, I'm not clear on why you're complaining. Are modern chips not fast enough for you?

Stallman? Is that you? I thought you lived in your office at MIT, not in your parents' basement.

Nom nom nom.

I notice you didn't sudo. Aren't you worried that some nemesis will break into your (mom's) house and change all your passwords or download Metallica music or google "osama + bin + laden + bomb + making + instructions + pr0n" or post to /. under your username while you're taking a bio break?