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For the extra curious, more transistors = more parallelism, bigger cache.
by overcast 7y ago
For the extra curious, more transistors = more parallelism, bigger cache.
- LegitShady 7y agoIt's even better than that. Smaller transistors require less energy to switch, and also switch faster.
- Symmetry 7y agoThe switching faster bit has only been happening very incrementally with the breakdown of Dennard scaling. Thankfully the less energy bit seems to be part of a more fundamental process than Moore's Law[1] and there are nice, clear, theoretical limits on how power efficient a computation can be which we're nowhere near hitting[2]. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle