Bigger is Much Hotter
*Get your mind out of the gutter!*
Bigger is definitely hotter, but not necessarily better. Sometimes small and nimble and cheap is good.
Q and Green Destiny are the respective champions in the debate.
The bottleneck in parallel processing is communication speed, getting information from one part of the machine to another in a timely fashion. Do it with proximity and you get heat and huge energy consumption to keep things from melting down. Do it with fiber cable and things stay cool but slow way down.
Bring on the quantum computing lasers!
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