Comes with a free space heater too. Neat.
Remember when CPU’s / GPU’s had clockspeeds that didn’t include “up to”
I understand why it’s better net performance doing it this way and better uses the whole potential performance of the chip.
That still doesn’t make me like it, not because of the technical reasons, but because of the way they twist the marketing, it could hit 6ghz for 1 microsecond and they could still claim #nowupto6ghz!
I remember 20 years ago already seeing 3ghz CPUs, isn’t technology supposed to improve fast?
And it has. The phone you have is faster than the 3GHz chip back then. A phone powered by a battery. And faster by like 20 times.
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.
The ultimate fix remains unexplored: reversible computing uses 0-1 pairs. Basically you do logic on the left one and swap them to invert that logical bit. Because the charge is simply transmitted, instead of grounded away or powered up, negligible entropy is involved.
I suspect you’d have to sink the values eventually… but I expect you could send them off “behind the woodshed” for that. Do all the work in some tiny flake of silicon, then transmit a stream of noise to a big dumb block of metal.
I thought Intel was dropping the K9 branding and skipping desktop chips for 14th Gen…
Winter is coming. Time to buy a space heater
