>> Admitted that from time to time we go to smaller yet 
>> feature sizes
>> and lower voltages, but not much time passes and the 
>> Clock rate and
>> density are increased and thats where the heat comes 
>> back!
>
> I don't think that's clear.  Power goes up because there 
> are more
> devices (transistors, gates, whatever you want to count) 
> on the
> chip.  The fact that this happens because the individual 
> devices are
> smaller and that ALSO allows higher clock speeds is just a
> coincidence.


Ignoring any hardware proofs or disproofs [ :-) ], power 
increases with clock speed due to node capacitance energy 
loss (amongst other things) and smaller device geometries 
allow higher clock speeds.



        Russell

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