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The Quest for More Processing Power

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-i-want-it-now dept.

Hack Jandy writes "AnandTech has a very thorough, but not overly technical, article detailing CPU scaling over the last decade or so. The author goes into specific details on how CPUs have overcome limitations of die size, instruction size and power to design the next generation of chips. Part I, published today, talks specifically about the limitations of multiple cores and multiple threads on processors."

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  1. There can only be one by 2.7182 · · Score: 4, Funny

    the quantum computer!! Until then we'll have to suck it up with these Si things.

  2. Re:We don’t need more “power” by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Smart power, not more power? How unamerican!

    TERRORIST!

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