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3D doesn't help very much. We're already at the limits of thermal capacity for consumer-chips. 3D just exacerbates that, since now you've lost a whole dimension you can shunt heat through.

If you go 3D, you need a very large drop in heat dissipation to keep your junction temperatures down.




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