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Has this law still held over the past few years ever since Intel has been unable to transition to 10nm?
by jostmey 10y ago
Has this law still held over the past few years ever since Intel has been unable to transition to 10nm?
- gwern 10y agoA version, perhaps, at least for GPUs - you can tell because we've gotten much faster new chips like the Pascal GPUs, but no one has needed to run new power lines to their rooms in order to use them.
- googsh0tz 10y agoThat's only because it's cheaper to build a whole new facility
- gwern 10y agoUh... people aren't 'building whole new facilities' for their gaming desktops. The new GPUs also have the same rated power consumption.
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- tdb7893 10y agoThis is my guess. I think that soon we will start to hit limits for single threaded performance so eventually we will just keep adding support for more threads to increase performance
- magila 10y agoPascal was indeed a big jump in efficiency, but that by itself doesn't really reflect the longer term trend. Prior to Pascal efficiency had stalled for a couple of years as GPUs were stuck on a 28nm process for much longer than previous node sizes. This pattern is likely to continue as advancements in fabrication continue to slow down and architectural gains become smaller.