We have transistors in the nanometer scale, why couldn’t we create really tiny 8086s?

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Because a 8086 is really fucking slow, and writing highly multi threaded code is way more difficult.

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Still in 5yo mode: why couldn’t you run the 8086s at an order of magnitude faster considering they would be much smaller?

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