Bill Henkel (noemail@yahoo.com) on 12/30/11 wrote:
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>There must be some people that need more CPU performance, otherwise all PC sales in the developed world would stop.
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>I'd like to clarify my suggestion of adding 128 MBytes or 256 MBytes of L4 cache
>to the processor package. The physical size of the processor package is determined
>by the number of pins. There is plenty of space to put 4 or 8 cache die on the
>same substrate that the processor die is attached to. The Pentium Pro had something
>like this years ago but it used wire bonding instead of a flip-chip attach. An
>alternative would be to stack the cache die on top of the processor die using through
>silicon vias. I think that is what David Kanter means by "3D integration". I bet
>with $100 of cost in cache chips, they could sell such a processor for an extra $500.

Very bad idea.

Slower latency to RAM, so my program jus twould slow down and i will not use the CPU's as i can't afford an extra $500 for each node.