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Not at all. Transistor density keeps marching on - it's clock rates that have stagnated, and they did so quite a while ago. So we're getting more and more tran
by jbri 16y ago
Not at all. Transistor density keeps marching on - it's clock rates that have stagnated, and they did so quite a while ago.
So we're getting more and more transistors on a chip, but it's prohibitively expensive in terms of power consumption and other tradeoffs to use them to make individual execution units faster. The solution? Use those extra transistors to cram more cores and more cache on the die.
- bioh42_2 16y agoYes, it is marching on, but not nearly as fast as it used to. And it will continue to slow down. Do you disagree?
- ssp 16y agoIt's still as exponential as ever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transistor_Count_and_Moore%27s_Law_-_2008.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transistor_Count_and_Moore... It will come to an end at some point of course.