Why are we still stuck within the 3-3.5 GHz range in terms of processor speed? It's been years! What's holding us down?

Why are we still stuck within the 3-3.5 GHz range in terms of processor speed? It's been years! What's holding us down?

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Simple physics? What a pointless thread.

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You have CPUs boosting to 5GHz nowadays but they need incredibly high voltage to do so and suck extraordinary amounts of power.

You need to increase voltage to make transistors more responsive

voltage != power

the same chip at higher voltage will have higher power consumption though. and you need high voltage at those frequencies to remain stable with modern CPUs.

Power = Voltage * Current

Electrons literally can't travel across a computer chip much faster than this, they'd have to account for special relativity and time dilation in clock speed if it went faster and nobody wants to deal with that noise

You're stuck at 3 GHz because you're poor. Any modern CPU from AMD or Intel can boost past 4.6 GHz.

Didn't overclockers manage to hit 7ghz? Also I remember research on graphene had led to 10ghz+ speeds.

depends on load
exactly, and current depends on load
there is a reason avx2 downclocks while pure int load doesn't

>Why are we still stuck within the 3-3.5 GHz
we aren't

Shit gets exponential in terms of power consumption and heat from this point.

>buy a 4.6 GHz CPU
>browse internet all day

Clock speed means nothing on its own. IPC is what really matters. Instructions per second, which scales with each independent system architech, who have their own clockspeed scalings.

It's literally
>Buy a 4.6 GHz CPU
>never use it at 4.6 GHz

Yes.
cpupower frequency-set -g performance

Clock speed is part of the math.

>7GHz
Yeah, with liquid nitrogen cooling

>graphene at 10GHz
IBM developed a 10GHz IC with a single gate, which took them 6 years and about $40m dollars. Graphene chips are a long ways off. EU has a billion euro grant for someone to work on getting graphene wafers up to the 200mm size required by most fabs, and no one has done it.

My 2009 I7 920 could sit at 4.6GHZ all day long. Not much progress.

A modern i7 boosts to 5 GHz at stock and can easily be overclocked to 5.5+ GHz. If we're talking halo products, the 12900KS boosts to 5.5 GHz at stock.

On its own its useless.
10 gigganigghurtsz pentium 4 wont do shit against any of the modern Ryzen at 3Ghz