Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:57:59 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 0:44:44 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:45:50 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
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"the CPUs are simply I/O managers to the Inference Engines and GPUs."

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That particular Wheel of Reincarnation will never turn that way.
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Why? It comes down to RAM. Those addon processors will never have
access to the sheer quantity of RAM that is available to the CPU. And
motherboard-based CPU RAM is upgradeable, as well, whereas addon cards
tend not to offer this option.

 
He showed a die figure with 256GB of DRAM stacked 8-deep and 2×4-wide.

Was it upgradeable? Or was it soldered in?

... all the CPU has to
do is program the I/O MMU to allow them to do their own thing, and deal
with the keyboard and mouse activities.

That’s not how interactive timesharing worked in the old days, and it
certainly won’t be sufficient for interactive work today.

You *did* say “servers” though, didh’t you?