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vlasev
on Feb 24, 2015
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Intel forges ahead to 10nm, will move away from si...
However 10-15% percent per generation is still exponential growth if the cycle length is roughly the same. Just slower.
higherpurpose
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Since IVB it's been more like 0-5 percent. Intel has decided to focus on reducing power consumption and keeping performance the same, since that's much easier to do now.
whyever
on Feb 24, 2015
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It is also much more reasonable, as memory is usually the bottleneck anyway.
eleitl
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Have you looked at (really) random-access memory bandwidth?
marcosdumay
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It's not really exponential if the number keeps going down on each generation.
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