– What is limiting computer processors to operate beyond the current range of clock frequencies (from 3 to up 5GHz)?

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– What is limiting computer processors to operate beyond the current range of clock frequencies (from 3 to up 5GHz)?

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Answer 1

The physics get weird quickly. There is a difference, for example, between the impedance of a trace with square corners, and one with rounded corners. I’m not offering that as a reason why we can’t go faster, just as an example of one of the many little things that suddenly become big things as you go faster.