Why aren't CPUs bigger?
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CPUs are relatively small, and engineers are constantly trying to make them smaller and get more transistors in the same surface. Why aren't CPUs bigger? If an approximately 260mm2 die can hold 758 million transistors (AMD Phenom II x4 955). Then a 520mm2 should be able to hold double the amount of…
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There are a lot of technical concerns (path lengths get too long and you lose efficiency, electrical interference causes noise), but the primary reason is simply that that many transistors would be too hot to adequately cool. That's the whole reason…
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