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On 11/20/24 11:45 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:35:47 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:
> 
>> 1000 watts TDP?
>>    Seems just making more powerful chips by brute force has to end soon.
> 
> Faster == hotter. I remember a seminar about 40 years ago when CMOS was
> coming into its own and touted as low power. The dirty little secret was
> the power required to switch capacitive loads is a function of the voltage
> and frequency so the dynamic power dissipation exceeded that of 74LS parts
> when you drove them hard.
> 
> A lot has changed since then but I'm not waiting for a miracle.

   SOME "miracle" will be necessary ... we're about
   at the limit.