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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.My idea is more that the OS cores should be minimum spec for what the OS would need. Having support for the instructions needed for...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.Have we considered the possibility of OS Restricted cores? In other words, some cores are only available for OS internal process usage...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion ARM Cortex/Neoverse IP + SoCs (no custom cores) Discussion.No. I don't. However, continuing to push prices upwards will always make alternatives more palatable. They are supposed to be getting...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Leading Edge Foundry Node advances (TSMC, Samsung Foundry, Intel) - [2020 - 2025].Rapidus claims to be on track, producing 2nm GAA test wafers now, volume manufacturing due in 2027... Link to Serve-The-Home article...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Zen 7 speculation thread.I'm not talking about that sort of scale of NPU. I'm specifically thinking of a minimum spec NPU on the scale of what Strix...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.Shouldn't really matter. I/O requests are made to the OS anyway in most situations. The OS should have perfect understanding of what...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question TSMC nodes over last 20 years. N2 is going to change everything..Neither of them can reasonably hope to match TSMC in volume to get their facilities amortized low enough to support breaking even with...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question TSMC nodes over last 20 years. N2 is going to change everything..New PC power cords incoming: 4 spade 240VAC/30/40 AMP RV plugs... Plugs requiring 4 conductor 8 gauge lines with an Arc Flash safe...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Zen 7 speculation thread.While I agree that it would likely be best on a PCIe card in workstations, not having an NPU may be an issue for Windows OS going forwards.
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.Perhaps it is possible for Windows to take topology hints from chipset drivers that would push storage I/O operations to the LPE cores...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Zen 7 speculation thread.I wonder if Zen 6 or Zen 7 era Threadrippers will get NPUs on the IODs as well? It would seem to be a missing feature for Windows OSes...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Intel Meteor, Arrow, Lunar & Panther Lakes Discussion Threads.I read somewhere that IBM's SMT focus was to identify every region in the core that had resource contention, other than the main...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion ARM Cortex/Neoverse IP + SoCs (no custom cores) Discussion.They're milking it while they have the market by the... jewels... They know that the day is coming where RiscV will be a suitable...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Discussion Ryzen 9000X3D series review thread."It's MegaMaid sir! She's gone from..." Nope... Not gonna do it... Wouldn't be prudent... At this junk-ture... I'll see myself out...
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LLightningZ71 replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.Keep in mind, the various core types don't all have to execute every instruction particularly well. AMD could make a processor with a...
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