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One of the impressive things about chips ever since the 70's, is how they've become ever denser and ever more powerful, so they are now more than 50 ~~thousand~~ million times more complex, going from little more than a thousands, to 50 billion transistors as per 5 years ago! Yet modern chips remain very reliable, and the biggest vulnerability is not inherent, but from targeted hostile attacks against them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
It's almost as if the industry knows very well what they are doing.
The headline is moronic, but of course the progress of chips will slow down, and heat is one of the factors.
Which is also why thermal limit has gone up, and they they introduced throttling and such. It's like they're aware of the problem and working on it... but that wouldn't make a nice article.
Yes absolutely, I don't know how they do it, but I remember BIOS shutting off the computer if the CPU was 60° C. Now many chips can handle above 100° C.