Why does clockspeed tend to go up (or did it tend to) with smaller components? Is there some sort of electrical intertia that can be switched faster if the transistors are 90 nm rather than 130 nm?
Performance seemed tied to clock speed between before my time (286? 8086?) until about the Pentium III/Athlon. And now were at this new paradigm or something. Does increasing performance now come from better organized chip (more efficient in the computing power/GHz metric)? If not there, where are the improvements coming in?
Both of the seconds times are actually microseconds in the wikipedia article. A great reason why you shouldn't spend your time looking through character maps to find obscure mu symbols and just use a u for microvolts, microamps and microsoft. This formatting issue has caused problems in many published papers, which which often don't get corrected.
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I have a question that parent post sort of begs:
/GHz metric)? If not there, where are the improvements coming in?
Why does clockspeed tend to go up (or did it tend to) with smaller components? Is there some sort of electrical intertia that can be switched faster if the transistors are 90 nm rather than 130 nm?
Performance seemed tied to clock speed between before my time (286? 8086?) until about the Pentium III/Athlon. And now were at this new paradigm or something. Does increasing performance now come from better organized chip (more efficient in the computing power
Both of the seconds times are actually microseconds in the wikipedia article. A great reason why you shouldn't spend your time looking through character maps to find obscure mu symbols and just use a u for microvolts, microamps and microsoft. This formatting issue has caused problems in many published papers, which which often don't get corrected.