Question-thinking. Increasing processor power by increasing its size - is it possible?

Question

Computers

I know what a processor is), but with a theoretical basis in this topic, I’m not at all strong. Over time, they become more powerful, the size of technological bases are reduced. There are multiprocessor motherboards and the like. The absolute dimensions of the processor itself practically do not decrease, of course, if we take some short period - 10 years. A question is brewing. It is certainly possible to make a computer more powerful not by increasing the number of processors, but by increasing their size, i.e. now the processor is small, but it could be made using the same technology, but the size of a brick. What do you say?

Answer 1

What do you mean by power? If the frequency, then what do you want to add there to the size of a brick?
And yes, an electromagnetic wave (like light) can travel about 10 cm during one cycle of a processor operating at a frequency of 3 GHz. Roughly speaking, the signals in one cycle should reach the farthest corners of the processor. Considering that their paths are not the most direct, imagine how much you will have to lower the processor frequency so that it has time to process throughout the entire volume of this brick.

Answer 2

In addition to physics, there is a question with the price.
A large crystal is a huge rejection. I remember that such a GPU as the GF100 (GTX480) at 529mm² yielded 70% of good chips - it was a very happy event that deserved to be mentioned in the news.
Huge crystal - very few working chips from the plate.