When CPUs Stopped Scaling: Why Hardware Got Complicated
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CPU clock speeds stopped scaling in 2005 when Dennard scaling broke down. The real bottleneck is moving data, not computing it, so hardware got specialised.
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Why hardware got complicated: the end of clock-speed scaling, the limits of parallelism, the cost of moving data, and computation pushed closer to storage.