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Re:Apple M1 Max die has an entire hidden section on the bottom by shituonui on Friday December 03, 2021 @01:06PM (#29433054)
In what universe did Zen 1 fail? Zen 1 was one of the best-performing designs in the world and scaled very well to high core counts.

The fact that Zen 2 is better doesn't reduce the excellence of Zen 1.

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Re:Apple M1 Max die has an entire hidden section on the bottom by ksec on Friday December 03, 2021 @01:54PM (#29433678)
>In what universe did Zen 1 fail?

Failed in the context of NUMA, not the product or uArch. Which is still an issue with Zen 2. Only better managed.

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Re:Apple M1 Max die has an entire hidden section on the bottom by shituonui on Friday December 03, 2021 @02:21PM (#29434080)
They made a tradeoff of having higher and less uniform memory access. This was not a failure. It was a decision that paid off.
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