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Modern x86 processors are far from simple though and so it's arguable that it's not significantly less complicated. Though to be fair I'm not sure it's really
by Guthur 6y ago
Modern x86 processors are far from simple though and so it's arguable that it's not significantly less complicated.
Though to be fair I'm not sure it's really all that complex relatively to modern high end processors. Most of gpu is just the same unit repeated.
For mind boggling complexity in my mind is the manufacturing process undertaken by the likes of TSMC.
- modeless 6y agoThe Larrabee cores were intentionally simpler than even most 2010 CPUs. Yeah, modern semiconductor fabrication is pretty much the pinnacle of human achievement. My favorite video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4