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Re:Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger... by UncleOxidant on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:16PM (#25784378)
...and that if they wanted to I'm sure Apple could spin a server version with many more cores in pretty short order.
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Re:Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger... by thu2111 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @07:08AM (#25801740)
It's not that easy. Adding cores is not just changing "const int CORE_COUNT" somewhere in a VHDL file. Scaling up cores without hitting communication or other bottlenecks is a difficult engineering problem that has taken a lot of effort from Intel and AMD.
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Re:Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger... by caycep on Friday January 15, 2021 @04:01PM (#25796412)
What I'm curious is; is how Nuvia and the departure of Williams et al impacted their ability to do this?
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