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What you said was true for a very long time, but Moore's law has slowed down a lot over the last 5yrs and power consumption has increased significantly, and is about to become unreasonable in my opinion.

Maximum power draw of 2.4 kw for about to 10% of the uptime is ... sadly going to be reality soon.

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> power consumption has increased significantly, and is about to become unreasonable in my opinion

It is not the first time it has happened, and then went down again. It's just one of the usual "cycles".

I don't think we've went through a circle of more then doubling the power consumption before, but I've only been paying attention to it since shortly before 2010, as I was using prebuilt systems before that.

Maybe you're right and more then doubling the power consumption is a normal thing that just occasionally happens.

Precisely it was with Core that I think the previous "nuclear power CPUs" cycle ended.

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