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Originally posted by Cathar
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It's important to view CPU die sizes in its entire history cycle. We are only seeing an emergence of large die sizes now because the 0.13u process is at the end of the line and both CPU makers are introducing CPU's just before their 0.09u processes come on-line. Give it 6 months and we'll all be back to the 100-140mm^2 CPU sizes we've been using for the last 5 years.
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You are not going to get any arguments from me on that. The only thing that I would like to point out is that you are not only shrinking the die but at the same time you are adding more heat in that same area (more transistors in a smaller area). So where you once had X amount of transistor in a 100-140mm^2 area you now have Y.