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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by marcosdumay on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @06:53AM (#16428760)
There are plenty of 64 cores servers. Yet, multi-core architectures seem to have hit a wall caused by slow memory access.

I'm still waiting for the massively parallel NUMA machine in a chip, but there are many manufacturing problems keeping those away.

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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by monocasa on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:20AM (#16429209)
And hit a wall for power/density.

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