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by Dylan16807 1138 days ago
That just means you can't have a single simple clock source fan out in a simple way across the entire chip, but that kind of design performs badly anyway.

There are lots of ways to have multiple clock sources kept in sync or to alter the clock's phase to compensate for distance, so you can keep the entire CPU synchronized even if crossing it takes multiple clock cycles.