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No mention of Moore's Law...

> The number of transistors is way up, by about 50%, from roughly 11 billion to 16 billion. Most of the extra transistors went into the core, not the cache.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

> Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years, with minimal increase in cost.

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Moore's law is mostly dead these days. Process scaling still happens, but nowhere near at the rate predicted, and there are tradeoffs everywhere now. The Zen 5 core is in fact bigger in terms of die size too.

Is it? Without Googling to backup my intuition, I thought that Moore's Law is still alive, but people just get Moore's Law wrong. A lot of people think it states that PERFORMANCE doubles, but it's number of transistors.

And while in the past, the doubling of transistors DID double performance, it's no longer true.

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