... SPARC was terrible. Really just utter excrement. Having a lot of cores is not a good thing when the cores are too slow. This is an interesting CPU because t

... SPARC was terrible. Really just utter excrement. Having a lot of cores is not a good thing when the cores are too slow. This is an interesting CPU because the cores are actually usably fast. Nearly all programs have a constant memory usage regardless of how fast the core running them is. If you deliberately make your cores half the speed, and double the amount of them, you have approximately doubled the cost of the memory you need. In aggregate, memory already costs so much more than CPUs that this is rarely if ever useful, even if it meant your cpu is free. The starting point of a design that tiles a lot of cores just needs to be ones of the fastest cores available, or it is not commercially viable.