Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture

On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:39 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:

In article <20240923105336.0000119b@yahoo.com>, already5chosen@yahoo.com
(Michael S) wrote:
 

Why # of CPU cores on die is of particular importance?

 
Because multi-core made multi-processor systems commonplace, and far
more software started using multiple threads.

Another interesting factor is that proprietary server software that had
been licensed by number of CPUs mostly changed to licensing by number of
CPU *sockets*.

Not sure how they were strongarmed into giving up revenue like this ...