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One of the reasons why CPUs are getting faster is because the more transistors you have, the faster is the chip and vice versa (this is not a proven statement b
by codedokode 4y ago
One of the reasons why CPUs are getting faster is because the more transistors you have, the faster is the chip and vice versa (this is not a proven statement but rather my intuition). We might not be able to use higher clock frequency, but we still can fit more transistors on the same area.
- RC_ITR 4y agoWhat’s even more, is we can make higher frequency chips, it just turned out higher density gates was the easier path to go down. If the gates path reaches its end, we can still go back to clock. It won’t be easy or cheap to solve all the clock problems, but if it’s better than the alternative someone will do it (like how fracking only became viable as a means of drilling oil once the cheap, easy to get oil was somewhat depleted)
- codedokode 4y agoBy the way, why did clock frequency stop around 3-4 GHz? I assume that as transistors become smaller, their propagation delay decreases, as their power consumption, and it allows to use higher clock frequencies. Is there something else that I am missing?
- pishpash 4y agoPropagation delay doesn't decrease from one end of the chip to the other if you keep the same area in total.
- blihp 4y agoPower consumption and the resulting heat.
- scoopertrooper 4y agoThe top-of-the-line next generation of chips will be solidly clocked at 5GHz and above. https://hothardware.com/news/amd-computex-taipei-2022-keynote https://hothardware.com/news/amd-computex-taipei-2022-keynot...
- the_only_law 4y agoI believe mainframes have had CPUs operating around this for a while as well.