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Presumably it's much smaller. A similar but different thought experiment would also fill the 14gen-sized die with 386es running in parallel.
by immibis 11mo ago
Presumably it's much smaller. A similar but different thought experiment would also fill the 14gen-sized die with 386es running in parallel.
- atq2119 11mo agoIf you continue that thought experiment, you'd very quickly run into the issue that the way the 386 interfaces memory is hopelessly primitive and not a good match for running 1000s of cores in parallel. A large reason why out of order speculative execution is needed for performance is to deal with the memory latencies that appear in such a system.
- toast0 11mo agoThat gets you close to Larabee/Xeon Phi, although that was pentium based although amd64 and a vector engine were added and later products were Atom derived.