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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Give them all paper plates and just stick big vacuum cleaners to all the windows so when the plates are empty they just go wooosh