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It would be prohibitively expensive. Several megabytes of cache already take up about half of the CPU die size. http://techreport.com/review/21987/intel-core-i7-3960x-proce...

Think about how much larger a CPU would have to be to include an entire gigabyte of cache, much less multiple gigabytes.



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