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Re:Talos II by eeks on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:33AM (#14956688)
Huge memory BW, CAPI2, 8-way SMT, 120MB L3 cache, L4 cache, compression and crypto coprocessor, etc...
Re:Talos II by CrystalGamma on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:14PM (#14962767)
They are selling Scale-Out processors here, which IIRC “only” have 4-way SMT (which will, given IBM's track record, still actually give a ~2.5x improvement over no SMT, unlike <1.5x for SMT2 in Intel/AMD)