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How many in-order cores could one fit on a die?

How many in-order cores could one fit on a die?

Posted Aug 10, 2023 16:34 UTC (Thu) by malmedal (subscriber, #56172)
In reply to: How many in-order cores could one fit on a die? by DemiMarie
Parent article: Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities

> Could one make up for the reduced single-threaded performance with higher core counts and hardware support for coordination between cores?

In theory, but the people who have tried, e.g. Sun with Niagara and Intel with Larrabee have so far failed...


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