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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. Re:We don’t need more “power” by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 4, Informative

    Didn't the powerpc have something approaching this.
    I remember the old motorola 68000 range having 16 32bit regs for general coding, and one of the prime benefits of the ppc was the vastly greater registry capacity.

    I stopped coding assembler when I moved to x86 - what a horrible cludge of a stack stack biased platform it is.

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    liqbase :: faster than paper
  2. Unbloated URL by rylin · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2343.
    Same article without 90% of the ad-bloat.