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Intel's futuristic 528-thread monster CPU may mark end of an era as chip giant looks beyond x86 (www.techradar.com)
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For once I actually feel excited about processors again

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[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

x86 is increasingly a complexity monster. I'm pretty sure, a substantial part of the instructionset is hardly ever used by modern programs, yet Intel has to maintain them.

And if you look at all the hardware security incidents, they all originated in attempts to squeeze the last drops of performance from an old architecture.