DrMrLordX
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Last time that technically happened was Broadwell. Sure we can argue it was only this corner case - high performance desktop - that saw ST regression, we can also argue that i7-5775C was a 65W TDP chip, but the truth is it was unlocked and could not clock high enough to match previous gen ST performance. On top of that it was late and had poor firmware support.
Broadwell did fine! You still have people holding it up as the desktop gaming champion, though as DDR4 speeds go up and as people agree to start using high-speed DDR4 in benchmarks, that claim becomes less true every day.
Board support is really what killed it. Intel never meant for the i7-c and i5-c to go very far.