Moore’s Law by the co-founder of Intel stated that the number of transistors on a Chip doubles every two years, which has been roughly true of several decades.
And there have also been somewhat formulaic increases to [Frequency and Cores Count.](https://i.imgur.com/XbMffI8.jpg)
I wonder what the Holdup is preventing power spikes. Like why did they not quadruple the transistors or increase frequency further. When extra Cores were invented and Intel built the Duo, then Quattro Processors, why did they not extrapolate the technology and build the Twelve-Core-CPUs of today or even 48-Core-CPUs of the future right then and there?
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It takes time for electrical signals to move around. The larger (physically) the chip is, the lower the clock rate has to be. So for a given process size there’s a tradeoff between clock rate and size/count of cores. Even with modern CPUs, most of the die space is implementing giant L2/L3 caches that run at a lower clock rate than the CPU cores and L1 caches.
Heat dissipation is another problem, higher clock rates (and/or voltages) and more complex cores generate more heat. For consumer-level tech you have to be able to air cool the CPU, so power dissipation much above 50-100W is very very hard to deal with.
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