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 17:16 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)In reply to: How many in-order cores could one fit on a die? by DemiMarie
Parent article: Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities
Most systems have a compute device in them, called a GPU, which is designed that way. For certain workloads, such as graphics rendering and machine learning, this is an amazing model, because there's a huge amount of parallelism to exploit (so-called "embarrassingly parallel" problems). For others, such as running a TCP/IP stack, it's not great, because much of the problem is serial, and you're better off pushing the problem to a CPU which is designed to run a single thread exceedingly fast.