: Why are computer CPUs the size they are? Wouldn’t making them bigger give way to more processing power without needing better technology?

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The opposite is true.

Think about factories you want to connect with roads. The longer the roads, the longer it takes you to travel them. So to make things (data in a CPU) go from one factory to the other, you want the roads as short as possible.

But, if those factories are too close together, pollution (heat in a CPU) becomes a problem. So the only way to have those factories closer together is by making them produce less pollution (heat).

Therefore there is the balance to cram everything on a CPU as close together as possible, but not so close that it overheats.

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