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Re:Ask HN: What is likely to improve with 10/7nm CPUs? by IshKebab on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:39AM (#17645201)
Yeah but power consumption increases with something like the 4th power (heh) of frequency so there's not much you can do even with really low power transistors.
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Re:Ask HN: What is likely to improve with 10/7nm CPUs? by calvinlh on Monday July 30, 2018 @12:13PM (#17645539)
According to this article on Wikipedia, it's a linear relationship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation

Edit: maybe this takes into account that when you increase frequency you might also have to increase the voltage to keep the processor stable, as well? But a 4th power effect seems quite extreme.

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