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Why are CPUS not getting faster?

Soldato
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I was watching and reading about CPU history last night. One thing really stuck out to me. The jumps in clock speed from one release to the next were HUGE. But for the last ~10 years it has really slowed down. Now the focus is more cores.

Is this some sort of limit of silicone that we have reached? around 5Ghz? Or have Intel just been milking us?
 
If, overnight say, we suddenly cracked room temperature super conductors. So basically the CPU would have no resistance in it ad make basically no to very little heat. How fast do you think we could go on silicone?
 
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