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[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] superguy@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just use the heat to power the machine.

[–] zoomshoes@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's how it works.