<div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/17 Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Apart from economies of scale and advances in cooling this is what happens<br>
if you start rearranging the existing transistors into something marginally<br>
more efficient -- see CUDA and Cell for examples, all mainstream architectures<br>
derived from consumer systems.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Yes, I think that marginal efficiency touches here and there plus sheer "size" is what has been delivering sofar.<br><br>One wonders what the closest "wall", making a breakthrough necessary to go on, might lie...<br>
<br>In the meantime, let us enjoy the steady performance increases... :-)<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>