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How fast do you expect CPUs to be in five years?

1 points by joelthelion ↗ HN
How fast do you expect CPUs to be in five years, compared to an average CPU from today, say an i5 2500 for example? In which areas of CPU design do you expect the most progress?

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jerf
Define "fast". No joke, no sarcasm, no snark intended; you really ought to be more specific if you want useful answers.
darkxanthos
I came to this thread with the prediction that the top post would be someone asking that question. #WINNING
joelthelion
I didn't define it on purpose. Part of my question is defining what fast will mean in five years. Will it be many more cores? A better architecture? More MHz?
dman
Heres my armchair handwaving = 48-64 cores with a lot of dynamic speed management. -> Have one thread going it might blaze through at 4+ GHz hopping cores while most of the chip is gated off. If youre running many threads then the 48-64 threads chug along at 2.5-3.5 GHz.