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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?

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Because a 8086 is really fucking slow, and writing highly multi threaded code is way more difficult.

[–] amon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours 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?