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> when CPUs stop getting much faster If by faster you mean clock speed, they haven't been getting faster for a while now. Memory and IO speeds do lag behind, b
by zhemao 13y ago
> when CPUs stop getting much faster
If by faster you mean clock speed, they haven't been getting faster for a while now. Memory and IO speeds do lag behind, but we have caching to solve the former and SSDs to solve the latter. One pressing issue now is getting the power consumption down. This is especially important for laptops and mobile phones. FPGAs are pretty good at using less power, but you have to sacrifice a lot of performance and programmability.
- anigbrowl 13y agoAh sorry, I meant in terms of execution speed not clock, and was thinking mainly of shrinking die sizes > more transistors > more operations per cycle. I apologize for the vagueness.