Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)
by deepnotderp on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:21PM
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1. Compound semiconductors often suffer from p-type and n-type conduction problems. Plus they're ridiculously expensive and power hungry. They also often lack a native oxide.
2. The problem today in CPUs is not really clock speed but much more the memory access latency, optane is much slower* than DRAM and has much lower endurance.
*Even though silicon HKMG transistors use high k gate dielectrics now, they still use a silicon dioxide interfacial layer.
2. The problem today in CPUs is not really clock speed but much more the memory access latency, optane is much slower* than DRAM and has much lower endurance.
*Even though silicon HKMG transistors use high k gate dielectrics now, they still use a silicon dioxide interfacial layer.