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> 2012 - moores law basically ends - nand gates do t get smaller just more cleverly wrapped. Single threaded execution more or less stops at 2 GHz and has remained there.

A 2GHz core from a 2012 is extremely slow compared to a 2GHz core of a modern CPU. The difference could be an order of magnitude.

There is more to scaling CPUs than the clock speed. Modern CPUs process many more instructions per clock on average.



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