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SMT's relative contribution to the die area doesn't increase with the complexity of the rest of the core; both ThunderX3 and the Pentium 4 spent about 5% of their area on SMT. However, both validation time, and crucially, the attack surface for machines hosted in the cloud increase because of...

There's a post on Anandtech's forums comparing the M4 to the A17. It seems that the improvements in non SME accelerated tests are primarily due to clock speed. Code compilation, i.e. the Clang subtest, sees practically no increase in IPC.

Apple's chips are excellent, but the point about nodes is a valid one. When the shoe was on the other foot, RISC vendors used to cry ad nauseam about Intel's node advantage.

The most recent figure comes from Marvell. The corresponding figure for Intel's much larger CPUs should be less as they spend far more area on wide vector execution than the ThunderX3.

To be fair, they should be comparing the 12900k to the Xeon as the Xeon uses Golden Cove cores. We aren't privy to their reasons, but SMT is lightweight from a die area perspective. However, keep in mind that a lot of Xeons are now sold to the cloud vendors, and their business model is built...

Those yield rates for HBM3e's TSV are pretty low. Do we know what they were for earlier generations of HBM?

That was a good read; rather ironic to see SPARC in an Intel product. NPUs are simple compared to GPUs and especially CPUs. You also have to consider that a significant part of bringing CPUs to market is validation time and NPUs are far simpler in that way too.

The forum threads for the reviews are still online though they aren't as helpful as the original article. There's one for a Cooler Master 1000W PSU, another one for a SilverStone 1000 W, and one for the Seasonic X-750. That Seasonic revisit was also their last review. For the last one, there's...

You'll have to try much harder to push my buttons. You raise a number of fair points and some of them are part of why the year of the Linux Desktop will probably always be in the future. It will probably arrive at the same time as commercial electricity generation from nuclear fusion.

Intel is big enough to do more than just NPUs and GPUs. NPUs, in particular, are relatively simple compared even to GPUs, never mind CPUs.

This is a forum for enthusiasts so recommending Linux shouldn't be a head-scratcher. Granted, Mac OS is better for consumers, but picking a newbie-friendly distro like Ubuntu or Mint should be fine for many. Ubuntu, in particular, has been around for nearly twenty years now. As far as xzutils...

You can also dual boot Linux. With multiple SSDs, it is easier than ever to run both Linux and Windows on the same computer and have both as first class citizens.

I concur. With HardOCP, Kyle removed all of the articles so we have to rely on Waybackmachine. TechReport was bought out, but effectively, it died; their articles still exist, but the graphs are missing.