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[chipguy]

All known transistors show exponential correlations of frequency vs. leakage in current nodes, whereas it obviously goes linear with transistor count.

I am talking about a given transistor in a given process.

It doesn't leak any more when turned off if it sits in a 20
pipe stage CPU that runs at 3.2 GHz compared to a 12 pipe
stage CPU that runs at 2.2 GHz.