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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why doesn't intel increase the size of the processor to make it faster? We're trying techniques to make transistors smaller, but would a 1 square meter processor outperform what we have now at the same transistor size?

Edit: I'm learning something new with every answer, great sub, thanks a lot.
gpt
Several factors:

 * Job 1 is making money, and bigger processors cost more (and you can't necessarily charge more for them)

 * Most of the die is not logic anyway - it's cache.  You could make processors bigger now, and just not have so much cache (or have fewer processors, since most are 2 or 4 cores per die)

 * Bigger processors are less power efficient, and everyone is on a power efficiency kick right now

 * A new (and bigger) design carries a fair amount of risk - you spend a few hundred million dollars, and it might not work as expected.  Plus, if it's really bad, you have no new product for the next cycle.