Re:Skymont: Intel's E-Cores reach for the Sky
by adgjlsfhk1 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @03:06PM
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The other problem Intel has is that they are apparently a horrible factional mess of a company. The fact that the P and E cores are completely separate architectures that sometimes don't even agree on what instruction set they are supporting (e.g. avx-512) is kind of crazy.
Re:Skymont: Intel's E-Cores reach for the Sky
by dragontamer on Sunday January 19, 2025 @10:20PM
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AMD had Bulldozer and Bobcat back in the day. Two teams with two different goals is fine, as long as they work together at the end.
And P-cores and E-cores do seem like they are working together well in the "Ultra" series.
Re:Skymont: Intel's E-Cores reach for the Sky
by adgjlsfhk1 on Monday January 20, 2025 @07:16AM
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using AMD in the bulldozer era as a comparison to Intel is a really bad sign.
The main issue is that Intel is... well Intel. Even if they write a good library, there's probably 0% chance it'd work well on ARM systems their competitor. (And only a small chance that it'd be optimized for AMD).
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Microsoft did put a lot of work into ConcRT, but it doesn't look very successful. Its a very clean model of task-based scheduling, but I'm not seeing too much buzz about it or too many blog posts marketing the benefits.