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On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> The point made about producing less heat with the smaller nm sounds |
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> reasonable tho. |
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Less heat with the smaller nm, but only if all other things remain equal! |
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In reality, manufacturers use additional margin within their TDP to |
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improve the product otherwise. Perhaps they increase the clock speed |
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somewhat. Perhaps they increase the amount of on-die cache. Perhaps |
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they reduce the instruction pipeline. |
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AMD, for example, has tended to maintain keep something in the market |
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for a 125W, 95W and 65W TDPs for several years. Each year, the |
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functionality that used to be in a 125W TDP processor shows up in a |
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95W TDP processor, and the latest 125W TDP processor beats the pants |
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off of last years'. |
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:wq |