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What is the reason for CPUs being so small?
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The more transistors a CPU has the faster it is right? We seem to keep trying to make the transistors smaller and smaller yet the size of the CPU remains the same, a few cm squared. Why isn't the size of the chips ever doubled allowing twice as many tiny transistors on to the chip. Surely this woul…
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Well, the larger a single die is, the lower the yield of usable processors - ANY flaw would result in a useless or crippled chip. Multi die processors are possible, but not cost effective - the pentium pro was THREE dies in a package, and had horrid…
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