Re:Intel Kills “Tick-Tock”
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @06:02PM
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The question is what "nothing changes" means, and whether that's a desktop context or not. If he means a chip with 10x as many transistors can only keep 2x active at the same power budget, that's not a big deal. Give me a physically smaller chip in my phone, and a bigger cooler on my desktop.
Re:Intel Kills “Tick-Tock”
by 0xcde4c3db on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @06:22PM
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As far as I understand the issues with the current tech, it's not good enough that a chip only generates, say, 45 watts. You need to know that the dissipation is spread out enough in area+time to not overheat any individual components, which gets harder as the components get smaller.
So the "tweak-tweak" can become the major cycle soon on more levels.