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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by DuskStar on Saturday June 20, 2020 @05:43PM (#23587583)
> they delivered lower price for (say) 64 cores worth of performance, by putting them all on the same chunk of silicon.

Arguably AMD did the exact opposite - lower prices via splitting a processor into multiple pieces of silicon. (Chip price scale exponentially with area at the high end)

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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by a1369209993 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:24PM (#23587916)
Well, my point there was that a 64-core CPU is not (significantly) higher performance than 64 single-core CPUs, so multi-core is - if a improvement at all - a price improvement, not a performance improvement, but fair point about the price-vs-area scaling.
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