Why can’t companies like Apple (AppleSilicon) or other ARM chip making companies just make really big chips that would outperform anything and everything we currently have? Disregarding battery life and heat issues, what about a laptop that is only one mega chip that takes up all the inside?
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Signal times. The physically larger the chip, the longer the distance a signal has to travel between components on one end of the chip to the other end. This is only a few millimeters, and takes a small fraction of a second, but modern computers work so fast that the signal travel time is significant. This is part of why it is always better to make a chip with smaller components than increase the number of components by putting more of them on a bigger chip.
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