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Re:PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year... by moffkalast on Saturday March 07, 2026 @12:25PM (#47289557)
For parallelism we already have SIMD units like AVX and well... GPUs. CPUs need higher single thread speeds for tasks that simply cannot make effective use of it.
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