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Originally posted by bigben2k
Well, eliminating the clock is one way to reduce the heatload, but it's a drop in the bucket, no? (I didn't read all of it).
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It is a pretty big drop from what it makes out 15-30%. In fact Intel showed a CPU they said is scalable to 5gig that could be cooled with just a heat sink (in a different article that I cannot find). They will come up with a way to make them run cooler. After they have maxed out the current "style" of CPU's they will move onto something better that they are probably already working on. Also VIA (used to be Cyrix) has 1gig chips that can be used with a large HS and very slow quiet fan, in fact some use it passively. Sure performance isn't as good a AMD or Intel 1gig. But they do work good enough to get things done.
http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/c3E.jsp
Current CPU's are not nearly as effiecent as they can be. Once they become more efficent they will use less watts per die size. Just a matter of time. Just think how much tech has evolved in the last 8 years. Give it 18 and it will be totally different than today.
P.S.: I remember hearing 200mhz would never be achieved.