Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 3:48:36 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:39 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:
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In article <20240923105336.0000119b@yahoo.com>, already5chosen@yahoo.com
(Michael S) wrote:
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Why # of CPU cores on die is of particular importance?

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

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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*.

This is one of the reasons one of my employers stayed with 6 YO
software rather than switch to SOLARIS....

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