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$250 today buys you a Intel 13600, a 14 core chip. $250 ten years ago bought you a Intel 4670K, a 4 core chip (with significantly slower cores, less cache, etc
by ac29 3y ago
$250 today buys you a Intel 13600, a 14 core chip.
$250 ten years ago bought you a Intel 4670K, a 4 core chip (with significantly slower cores, less cache, etc). A 14 core processor was available only as a server CPU and cost $3000.
I'm not sure that is evidence of price going up faster than density over the last 10 years.
- blagie 3y agoI'll clarify Tostino's comment. For most of Moore's Law, price per mm of silicon was constant. A state-of-the-art 10 micron, 5 micron, 2 micron, 1 micron, and 500nm node, at introduction, was basically the same price per square millimetre. This meant you had exponentially-growing numbers of transistors for the same price. Density is going up now, but so is price. A billion transistors a 4nm will cost less than a billion at 40nm, but it's a different ride since you don't ave a 100x reduction in cost. There is a reduction, but it's not the same wild ride. At the same time, NREs are exploding.