Give an explanation as to why it is not feasible to continually add more and more cores to a CPU in order to boost its performance and keep up with the growth of Moore's Law?

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Problem 11VE: Most Intel CPUs use the __________, in which each memory address is represented by two integers.
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Give an explanation as to why it is not feasible to continually add more and more cores to a CPU in order to boost its performance and keep up with the growth of Moore's Law?

 

 

 

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