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How does increasing the number of transistors in a chip increase its speed?

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Is the only purpose of transistors in a CPU to act as the switches that define its instruction set? And if so then why does increasing the number of transistors increase its speed?

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Off the top of my head: More cache, which is faster than RAM More SIMD instructions, which process faster than single-data instructions More cores, so you can do two or more things at once More functional units, like built-in FPUs, and multiple ALUs…

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