Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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AMD Has Plans To Create The ‘Starship’ Processor With 48 Cores / 96 Threads On The 7nm Node .. planned for 2018
..Since all of this is basically just leaked paperwork at the moment, it would be prudent to take it with more than a pinch of salt...
Apparently, this is two or three month old news, but I hadn't seen it.
Going straight past 10nm to 7nm is the "big news" to me. It means faster progress to the "end of miniaturization" -- as some folks think 7nm is the smallest possible CPU architecture using "silicon" (I personally won't be surprised if smart folks get down around 3 or 4nm).
Once CPU cores are as "small" as possible, the only improvement will be in core count and architecture tweaks -- thus 48 cores. I imagine 48 cores could help flight simulations and other simulations -- if the simulations are coded to use 48 cores/96 threads. For example, one "thread" per aircraft in some air battles seems natural -- compared to only one or two threads for the entire world and all active units combined in older wartime simulations.
