If there are billions of transistors in a CPU, there is no chance that somebody designed every single one of them manually. Is their layout calculated or something?
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Jumping on this, since it feel like one of these dumb but not dumb questions:
Not sure if I was oblivious to the nuances when I was younger, but did the actual GHz of a CPU become much less decisive in indicating the performance of a CPU? When I got my first PC, kids predominantly talked about the MHz value (I got 660, X got 800, Y just got 1 GHz). Now, even when GHz numbers are close together, performance seems to be wildly different on factors like what Intel generation you get, etc.?
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