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Is CPU technology at a standstill?

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I bought an i7 quad core desktop PC with 8 GB RAM and various other things back in 2011 and since then I have added another 8 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD and a 1 TB external drive that I use for backups but I have not bought a new CPU or a new PC because none of the new CPUs seem any faster or significantly better than the i7 2600K CPU in my old 2011 PC. I think that CPU technology is pretty much maxed out for the time being.
 
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There had to be a point where the tech has to stop at least for awhile
 
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It might be a limitation connected to quantum mechanics - the Heisenberg uncertainty principle implies that there is a limit to tininess. And a limit to how heat can be dissipated on a CU chip that is not operating in a supercooled environment. I think that once the i7 chip was designed those limits were very close to being reached.
 
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