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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. Tim Taylor by derphilipp · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To quote Tim.... "We need more power! har har har" (For those who dont get it - its from a crappy TV Show called "Home Improvement" where Tim has his own TV show "Tool Time" where he messes up the complete show because he ignores the warnings of his clever co-moderator Al - and uses "MORE POWER!"

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    Flash: Carly to leave HP.

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    Jeez, I've been running Gentoo all this time when I should have been running Linux from Scratch, if only for the chance of sadomasochistic sex!

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  4. How could it be "overly technical"? by kinema · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    not overly technical
    Why not? This is Slashdot after all.