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Why not spread the processor across the whole Macbook motherboard, wouldn't this bring huge cooling benefits with no major downsides?
by Spartan22 5y ago
Why not spread the processor across the whole Macbook motherboard, wouldn't this bring huge cooling benefits with no major downsides?
- pure_simplicity 5y agoThe downside would be latency increase / speed reduction.
- 01100011 5y agoSpeed of light is something like one foot per nanosecond. So at 2GHz you go 6" per clock, assuming you can actually go the speed of light which, in a wire, you can't.
- bufferoverflow 5y agoThe whole point of going to smaller nm process is to bring things closer, so it takes less time to move information.
- admax88qqq 5y agoThe shorter signals have to travel, the less time and power it takes to do so.