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Re: Smaller still means hotter right ?

What's the real benefit we'll see ?

There are plenty of real world problem that happily lap up any excess computing power we have available (curing diseases with protein folding, energy exploration, etc). You are correct though that the benefit to consumers of more computer power is only somewhat of use as evidenced by the fact my 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 still plays all the games I want and is still a perfectly fine desktop. Still less and less power use of the same computing power as mention is darn useful for mobile, etc.