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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I remember 20 years ago already seeing 3ghz CPUs, isn't technology supposed to improve fast?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I remember when chips first hit 1GHz around 1999. Tech magazines were claiming that we'd hit 7GHz in 5 years.

What they failed to predict is that you start running into major heat issues if you try to go past ~3GHz. Which is why CPU manufacturers started focusing on other ways to improve performance, such as multiple cores and better memory management.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just use the heat to power the machine.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's how it works.

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