Originally Posted by Simon - PG Music
Ghz doesn't matter much anymore - that was proven over 20 years ago when the first Pentium 4 CPU's were being outperformed by significantly lower clocked Pentium 3's. These days it's efficiency and scalability that offer speed gains. All of the M-series chips are between 3.2 and 3.68 ghz - the performance difference between versions is in the amount of cores and the energy efficiency. More efficient means more flops per watt of heat.
I think that's true, but who knows quite how things will pan out in the future, with research into light ICs and soo on.

Not so long ago they were suggesting that 15nm geometries on ICs was about as low as one can go, because at that stage the leakage losses start to heat the chip and wreck any potential performance gains.

TSMC are now talking volume production of 2nm geometries in 2025. And I'll wager power consumption will fall again.

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