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Can anyone speak to the techical merits (or disadvantages) of arranging your Cores by Mesh or Ring? I noticed all the ARM chips use a Ring bus whereas Intel us
by alberth 8y ago
Can anyone speak to the techical merits (or disadvantages) of arranging your Cores by Mesh or Ring?
I noticed all the ARM chips use a Ring bus whereas Intel uses a Mesh.
- dweekly 8y agoFewer hops: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-xeon-processor-scalable-family-technical-overview https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-xeon-process...
- Symmetry 8y agoIntel was using a ring too until their most recent architecture. Sometimes multiple intersecting rings when the number of cores grew too large.
- brandmeyer 8y agoCost versus variation in memory access latency.