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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam by nullifidian on Monday October 31, 2022 @10:59PM (#33416407)
Not sure if it's exactly accurate with the plateauing trend -- single-threaded performance almost doubled in the last 5 years.
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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam by pclmulqdq on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @12:07AM (#33416783)
It's a log scale graph, it shows a doubling. The performance just isn't increasing as fast as it was before.
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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam by hansel_der on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:57AM (#33422077)
yea, buying a pc in the early intel era was a somewhat double edgded sword because you knew that the next generation would come out in a year or so and it would probably have more than double the performance.
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Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam by Nomentatus on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:31PM (#33501163)
For many years my friends and I had a rule that we wouldn't buy a new computer until it offered at least 4X the speed of our old one. We didn't have to wait all that long.
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