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Re:The coolest and scariest things coming in the chip indust... by wmf on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @05:49PM (#788147)
A server chip is one of the most difficult kinds of chips to design.
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Re:The coolest and scariest things coming in the chip indust... by pyre on Thursday August 27, 2009 @04:47PM (#790007)
How is a 'server chip' that much different than a 'desktop chip?' Other than possible increases in caches and/or the number of cores?
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Re:The coolest and scariest things coming in the chip indust... by UncleOxidant on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @06:22PM (#788208)
At least according to the article, I would suspect that a modern CPU is a good bit harder to design.
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