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This right here is the big one, to be honest. Yes, clocks, latency between parts of the die, etc are all problems - but they can be worked around with some effort.

Thermals and also power delivery are huge problems with large chips, just compare the massive 471 mm2 die of the GP102 (1080 Ti/Titan X) to the 150 mm2 die of the Coffee Lake hexacore chips. GP102 can draw 250-300W depending on boost clock, the Core i7-8700K can also draw upwards of 200W depending on how high you push the clocks and vCore (to keep said clocks stable).

There's a reason why board-partner GPU's always have huge coolers attached to them, and why people pushing CPU clocks are often using at least a giant air cooler like the Hyper 212 EVO or an AIO liquid cooler with a 240mm+ radiator.

Hell, let's skip thermals and just talk electricity - getting 200W+ of stable power to the cores on these dies is no easy task as-is, that's why you have people like buildzoid doing reviews of power delivery on motherboards and GPU boards to see if VRM's are going to blow up trying to power your expensive hardware if you're overclocking (or sometimes even if you aren't).

All in all, we have thermal and power scaling issues at current chip sizes - making them bigger isn't particularly feasible unless everybody is going to start installing 360mm radiators in their system and even that might not be enough depending on clock speeds and the vCore required to maintain them.




8700K pushes 130W at 5ghz all Core OC under full AVX load without offset even uner LN you won’t get 200W from a 8700K.




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