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Re: by pjmlp on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:36AM (#44456146)
The point being those are very niche cases that still don't keep the hardware busy as it should 24h around the clock.

Most consumer software even less, hence why anyone will hardly see a computer on the shopping mall with higher than 16 core count, and on average most shops will have something between 4 and 8.

Also a reason why systems with built-in FPGAs failed in the consumer market, specialised tools without consumer software to help sell them.

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Re: by timschmidt on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:56AM (#44456351)
> don't keep the hardware busy as it should 24h around the clock.

If your workload demands 24/7 100% CPU usage, Epyc and Xeon are for you. There you can have multiple sockets with 256 or more cores each.

> Most consumer software even less

And yet, even in consumer gear which is built to a minimum spec budget, core counts, memory capacity, pcie lanes, bus bandwidth, IPC, cache sizes, GPU shaders, NPU TOPS, all increasing year over year.

> systems with built-in FPGAs failed in the consumer market

Talk about niche. I've never met an end user with a use for an FPGA or the willingness to learn what one is. I'd say that has more to do with it.

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Re: by pjmlp on Friday July 04, 2025 @03:58AM (#44462246)
You have to root for those hardware designers to have software devs in quantities, actually using what they produce, at scale.
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