observation: people feel like Moore's law has "slowed down" since the 1990s, but this is in large part because the 90s were an anomaly
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much improvement during the 90s came from low-hanging fruit in CPU design (the 386 didn't even have an L1 cache!) and giant TDP increases
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sure, the pentium 4 had better performance per clock than a pentium 1, but it also used a full -order of magnitude- more power
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@FioraAeterna At least the mobile craze has brought back the days of decent-ish computers with tiny passive heatsinks.
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