Explain Like I'm 5 (ELI5)

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by amon@lemmy.world to c/eli5@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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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

[–] amon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day 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?

[–] Doombot1@lemmy.one 2 points 1 day ago

Heat