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by overcast 2481 days ago
For the extra curious, more transistors = more parallelism, bigger cache.
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It's even better than that.

Smaller transistors require less energy to switch, and also switch faster.

The switching faster bit has only been happening very incrementally with the breakdown of Dennard scaling. Thankfully the less energy bit seems to be part of a more fundamental process than Moore's Law[1] and there are nice, clear, theoretical limits on how power efficient a computation can be which we're nowhere near hitting[2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle