How have CPUs improved over the years

[Noah-G]

Hello there,

For a school project I have to ask someone about how companies like AMD and Intel improve their CPUs over the years, so I decided to ask the LTT website for help because there are no computer nerds at my school

 

Thanks and later,

Noah-G

[Fasauceome]

what scope of time are you considering?

[Falkentyne]

40 minutes ago, Noah-G said:

Hello there,

For a school project I have to ask someone about how companies like AMD and Intel improve their CPUs over the years, so I decided to ask the LTT website for help because there are no computer nerds at my school

 

Thanks and later,

Noah-G

Unless you want to get overly technical (Like over the heads of most people), you just have to discuss clockspeed, instructions per cycle, and SMT / multicores and multithreaded support.  I'd focus on multicore support and SMT support in operating systems.

[Jurrunio]

They could change the flow of instructions (architectural change), use transistors that can turn on and off faster while being more efficient, improve branch prediction (guessing of work to be done next), more cache so it doesnt stop to ask the RAM for info at the middle of a workload, stuff more cores into the CPU, integrate more components into the CPU to speed up data transfer between components, improve how each CPU core work on multiple tasks at the same time etc.

[xg32]

need a time span and you'd probably wanna focus on the compute power of 1 core, including HT, and the fact that there's more cores, p4->opteron->core 2->sandy bridge were big jumps, sandy->now not so much, the project's gonna look very different depending on how far back you wanna go, or whether you wanna get technical.

[Mister Woof]

Things got smaller, smarter, and more energy efficient.

[Noah-G]

On 9/20/2019 at 1:09 PM, Fasauceome said:

what scope of time are you considering?

From the start of CPUs to around 2010s