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How so? Can you elaborate?
by anonymous246 16y ago
How so? Can you elaborate?
- ssp 16y agoAs he says in the article, there is no theoretical reason you can't keep adding cores if they will fit. So given that a 486 was about a million transistors, and a modern Nehalem has about a billion, you could probably make a chip with a thousand 486s on it today. A clock frequency of 10 GHz is crazy talk, on the other hand. It would use way too much power. The power dissipation of a circuit is something like P = C * V^2 * f where C is the capacitance, V is the voltage, and f is the clock frequency. The problem is that the necessary voltage also grows with f, which means power dissipation grows much more than linearly with clock frequency. There is an explanation here: http://perilsofparallel.blogspot.com/2010/02/parallel-power-law.html http://perilsofparallel.blogspot.com/2010/02/parallel-power-... The comments on that post are also very good.
- billswift 16y agoThanks. That's an excellent blog, added to my bookmarks.