retro computer enthusiasts: NetBurst was the worst CPU architecture EVER. It got INCOMPREHENSIBLY HOT and consumed UNHEARD OF AMOUNTS OF POWER
intel, today: 
the raw current of a welder's torch; the thermal power, of over a hundred hot incandescent light bulbs, of a dozen tungsten arcs. all firing into an area of silicon the size of half a postage stamp square. all in order to draw pictures with absolutely maddening amounts of procedural, brute-force math
