Reply to post: Re: Sounds nice, but reality matters

'We will not rest until the periodic table is exhausted' says Intel CEO on quest to keep Moore's Law alive

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Re: Sounds nice, but reality matters

CPUs already exploit ridiculous quantities of instruction level parallelism (running instructions out of order if they don't depend on each other, and speculative execution, like you said). It just runs into diminishing returns at some point.

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