People get weird about expansion slots. :/. Somewhere they went from practical kit to a fetish.
And yes, more cores is absolutely the right approach. Cranking up clock speed? Okay… a 50% clock speed improvement (like we’ve seen that in years) and you get how much improvement?
Now compare that to going from one core to eight.
The MOARHERTZES approach worked fine when chips were dumb as hell and all sorts of stupid silicon tricks had to be pulled out of the ass to try and squeeze out a bit more performance.
That’s CISC.
RISC, on the other hand, the principle behind ARM designs such as Apple Silicon, says keep the design simple, but streamlined and capable of inter core connectivity from day one… then start slapping those little bastards together.
That scales… assuming you have a programming model, language semantics, and compiler tool chain that supports it.
Apple just happens to. Gee, wonder how that happened.
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