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Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake by ndesaulniers on Friday November 06, 2020 @08:40PM (#25012659)
> whatever forgettable AMD had been building between the Athlon glory days and those of Ryzen

Phenom II! I had six cores, 7 years ago! They were dog slow, but there were six of them (and that's all I could afford).

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Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake by mjevans on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:14AM (#25013347)
They weren't even that slow. Seven years ago they didn't win in __single threaded__ applications, but for any multi-threaded workload they were great.
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Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake by usrusr on Saturday November 07, 2020 @09:14AM (#25015171)
How is that not equivalent to "they were so much cheaper that you could get more of them"? Hardly what I'd call architectural success.
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Re:Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake by webmaven on Saturday November 07, 2020 @10:39AM (#25015659)
It isn't always obvious for future workloads whether scaling out vs. scaling up will win.

And even when it is obvious for particular workloads, the relative value and demand of various future workloads is definitely non-obvious.

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