Imagine being told in 2001 that America would still be at war in Afghanistan in 2018, and it would not be a political issue. And that CPUs wouldn't get significantly faster than the 3.5GHz one Intel demoed that year. What the hell.
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Replying to @Pinboard
They are significantly faster just not by arbitrarily increasing clock. Efficiency per clock went way up. The P4 was kind of a bogus design as it optimized for raw clock speed at the expense of everything else.
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Replying to @codinghorror @Pinboard
Somewhere around 2K EETimes plotted the thermal density of various CPU chips. Near the top right was a dot labeled "Pentium 4". Right next to it was another dot labeled "nuclear reactor".
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Replying to @isonno @codinghorror
Counterpoint: the core of the sun has about the same power density as reptile metabolism
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