Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:Mores Law (Score 1) 279

If your clock speed is a 4GHz square wave, it's physically impossible to send a signal somewhere on the up transition and have come back before the next up transition if it's more than 32mm away. That's based on the speed of light in a vacuum. Electromagnetic waves travel much slower in doped silicon.

The bigger the die, the harder it is so make a fast chip.

Comment Re:To answer your question (Score 1) 279

If the new architecture required a new process due to more logic, it wouldn't be tick-tock. They're have to do both at the same time.

Tick-tock lets them stay competitive. They can spend 2 years on a new process and 2 years on architecture improvements, yet still release something better every year.

If they didn't do that, the CPU market would look more like the GPU market, where half the time AMD has the fastest GPU and the other half it's nVidia.

Comment Alcohol is better for you than water (Score 5, Informative) 398

Woman drinks 30 - 40 glasses of water and dies. * http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...

You're 'supposed' to drink 8 glasses a day. A 5x increase of water intake can lead to death.

Women are 'supposed' to limit themselves to 2 standard drinks per day. Drinking 10 standard drinks does not result in death.

Slashdot Top Deals

"If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?" -- Lily Tomlin

Working...