(14-10-2024, 12:08 PM)king1 Wrote: wish they would get rid of those efficiency cores, at least in the higher end CPUs - you just don't buy a nice and fast CPU because you want it to be slow...
Its a waste of die space for sure, it could be that intel are just trying to squeeze as much out of their wafers to maximize profits.
You dont even need them these days, because any CPU these days can simply just throttle down when under no load.
This was also news to me, if im reading this right, Intel are using TSMC to make these!
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel...e-preview/
I thought Intel were also going to move to a chiplet architecture much like AMD is doing with Ryzen, i guess this might change things further, its also unclear to me whether or not Intel is using TSMC as a stop gap measure until they can develop smaller process nodes? I know they were left way behind by not investing so much into E-UV at the time they felt it was not ready and TSMC proved them wrong, now it looks like Intel is now doing the opposite and investing into NA-EUV and other similar technologies that need more time to be proven, but at least they are taking catch up seriously.
I also see its packed with a bunch of AI features, probably nothing more than marketing hype, I doubt it will be anything that powerful compared to a GPU with CUDA cores.