Quote:There are other ways of dealing with that, though. It's one of the advantages of the triple gate (or whatever they're called) transistors in ivy bridge. Although graphine may not turn out to be the miracle some are calling it, it would have many advantages over silicon if anyone could be bothered to put the work into getting it working. For example we are getting closer and closer to having such small 'wires' in CPUs that we'll have to stop, and will only be able to make better CPUs by making them bigger. Graphine would allow us to continue shrinking the low level construction further than silicon. But again, we may discover something even better, and use that instead.
In a world where chip performance is mainly limited by power dissipation (a.k.a. our world) none of this matters at all. We need to fix the power dissipation issues of high end ICs if we ever want to see significant improvements made to single threaded performance.
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"I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. "
-Mark Antony