Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more cores?

Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by valarauca1 on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @10:22AM (#12304890)

     Also it's yet to be seen what chipset we are getting,
     atm you shouldn't buy AMD not because the CPU's are
     utter garbage, but the chipset is utter trash.

Zen is going to have an integrated memory controller/PCIe root complex on dye. So this should help with IO concerns (no north bridge). Ofc this is gen 1 tech so who knows it could be crippled for certain tasks.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by dogma1138 on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @01:25PM (#12306449)

Intel does the same, there is still a "north/south bridge" (AMD had on die memory controller since the Athlon 64 days IIRC) which adds "additional" (via a bridge, you aren't getting additional bandwidth unless you are using QPI with multiple CPU's) PCIE lanes and centralizes I/O in Intel's case it's the PCH. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_Controller_Hub

AMD will have something similar even if the CPU will control most of the PCIE lanes in the system (usually GPU + high speed storage is over the CPU, the rest of the IO is over the PCH).

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