#2.5d stacking

You can't just keep making transistors smaller forever. Something has to change, and Intel have been thinking vertically. Meet the Lakefield CPU!

The way CPUs get better is changing. Traditionally, better designs take advantage of better manufacturing technology. Every year or two the transistors get smaller, so you get more of them in a chip, and that lets you do more. A modern CPU design simply couldn’t have been made 10 years ago. Now, traditional improvements are getting harder to come by, you can’t just keep making the transistors…