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by megaframe 5530 days ago
No, that limit has been hit by the physical structure of Silicon itself. The perf has to do with more transistors per square area, thus you could fit more "cores" into a single chip or for example, it takes me 2mil transistors to make a 5 clock cycle multiplier but I could get a 1 clock cycle multiplier if I used 5mil transistors. I didn't use to have the physical real estate to do it, now I would, so I'd do the same operation in 1/5 the time.