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Hasn't the tech community known this for years?
by netizen-936824 5y ago
Hasn't the tech community known this for years?
- clintonb 5y agoWho is the "tech community"? I was unaware of this, but it's not really relevant to my work as a software engineer.
- netizen-936824 5y agoApologies, I assumed it was mostly common knowledge among people who keep up with tech news. I began seeing stories about it at least a few years ago so I figured many of us had heard at this point.
- k__ 5y agoDoes anyone have to care about this implementation detail?
- 0cVlTeIATBs 5y agoFor one thing, it makes it harder for me to understand when it will be necessary for new processors to use exotic materials. Since I've learned about the naming, and that processors have not actually reached the 5nm physical limit for silicon, it feels wrong to perpetuate it.
- clintonb 5y ago> For one thing, it makes it harder for me to understand when it will be necessary for new processors to use exotic materials. If you have a need to understand this, shouldn't you be close enough to the field to discern marketing speak from the underlying technical details?
- recursive 5y agoIf you're going to devise some marketing-speak, shouldn't you be able to do it in a way that doesn't just happen to be an actual lie?
- netizen-936824 5y agoGlad to know others feel the same way as me about marketing
- wolf550e 5y agoYes, anyone who cares about chips has known this for years. It's the same as software engineers who don't know what SIMD is or think the CPU in their laptop or smartphone works like a MIPS they studied in college. When something like this is only one click away: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/sunny_cove#Block_diagram https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/sunny_...