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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Oh I know that one. It is because they generate heat and are so tiny it is not easy to pack more and more into the chips.
They have to figure out how to put more transistors in the chip and make them smaller. That takes time and research to come up with. Also, it needs to be better heat efficient. As electricity runs through the transistors, as with everything it generates heat (that is why you pc has heat sinks and fans).
There is no way to just pack as many transistors as you want into a chip the way it works.
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