eli5 – Why are ‘System on a Chip’ computer’s potentially faster?

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eli5 – Why are ‘System on a Chip’ computer’s potentially faster?

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The electrons don’t need to travel as far.

Think of the traces on a circuit board as wires. The longer the wire, the longer it takes a signal to move from one end to the other.

SoCs don’t require nearly as long a stretch of wire to get from A to B.

Yes, electrons functionally travel at lightspeed, but in a system running at billions of cycles per second, that extra time for a signal to travel a wire starts to matter.