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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 6 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Intel's flagship 128-core Xeon 6980P 'Granite Rapids' processor costs $17,800, making it the company's most expensive standard CPU ever. By contrast, AMD's most expensive 96-core EPYC 6979P processor costs $11,805.

Jesus Christ when did we break 20 cores?

[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

have you actually been living under a rock or something

[–] T156@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

CPUs have multiple cores now? Amazing.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember reading columns saying soon, when multiple cores become common, compilers will thread your program for you...

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

We were taught about OpenMP in like 2012 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMP

Intel's TBB was also used some, but not as frequently https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threading_Building_Blocks

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