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To: SteveinTX who wrote (89051)	6/3/2015 11:26:33 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

What is the silicon lottery? 18 October 2014 A CPU die is made out of a disc of silicon. The closer to the center of this disc you get, the better the CPU made out of it will be. For example, a Celeron is the outer edge, and an i7 is the near the middle. The silicon lottery usually refers to overclocking limits. A better overclocking CPU is considered "winning the silicon lottery." CPUs have variances in how they overclock. No two OC the same. Therefore, we coined a term for it. This is the disc. And it looks fantastic. But, it is also immensely powerful. linustechtips.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is the silicon lottery? August 1, 2013 tomshardware.com The latest Intel Gen5 CPUs use a 14nm (nanometer) process, but Gen4 22nm CPUs are still being sold. Whether Intel can achieve a commercial 5nm process by 2020 remains to be seen, but a silicon wall limiting further reductions in feature size at least commercially will almost certainly be hit within the next 20 years. I predict after transistors can no longer be made smaller, we will see a new generation of motherboards that will utilize multiple processors. A nanometer is a unit of spatial measurement that is 10-9 meter, or one billionth of a meter. It is commonly used in nanotechnology, the building of extremely small machines. Below is a chart showing Intel processes to date and future projections. en.wikipedia.org * * *