Why can’t we just pack more and more ALUs in a CPU to increase processing throughput instead of increasing clockspeeds? Wouldn’t the gain be just as significant?
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That’s what manufacturers *are* doing, by and large. That’s why every fabrication generation with a smaller process is such a big deal – they can now pack more transistors into the same size package. CPUs haven’t really gotten much faster in clock speed in a long time. 4ghz processors hit the consumer market 8 years ago and that’s still approximately the same top end speed today.
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