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ELI5: Why couldn't we just manufacture thousands of tiny 8086 cores on a single chip and run everything in parallel? (lemmy.world)
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We have transistors in the nanometer scale, why couldn't we create really tiny 8086s?

EDIT: thanks guys I just reinvented the GPU albeit crappier

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Still in 5yo mode: why couldn't you run the 8086s at an order of magnitude faster considering they would be much smaller?