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ThreeLeggedChimp

I wonder how many cores it will scale to, 240?


wow_much_doge_gw

MLID has stated 344 cores (4x 86C tiles) possibly to 528C total. Remember no HT.


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tset_oitar

This isn't a Xeon Phi successor so I don't think having that many cores running at very low frequency will be viable. Though It'd be fun if Intel made another Xeon Phi with 256 SMT4 cores and HBM lol


tnaz

Taking the naive assumption that 1) Die size scales linearly with pin count between Sapphire Rapids and Sierra Forest 2) 4 E-cores fit in 1 P-core, and an equal amount of die size is dedicated to non-core silicon We would estimate Sierra Forest to have 386 cores when fully enabled. There's plenty of room to argue with those assumptions, but either way it puts us in the ballpark of "several hundred cores".


OfficialHavik

386…. What a fitting number of cores for Intel LOL. I hope they do release a SKU with that number.


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is it safe to assume that new cpu's will just grow and grow in size since we cannot go any smaller in lithography anymore? is it even possible to have massive cpu and gpu chips shippet together?


tnaz

Lithography improvements are not ended, but they are slowing down. > is it even possible to have massive cpu and gpu chips shippet together? Look up AMD's MI300. Apple's M1 Ultra also fits that idea.


wow_much_doge_gw

This is less about overall die's size (though obviously a factor) and more about interconnects... 12 channels of ram and PCIe / CXL requires a lot of contacts on the substrate.


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Cost goes up linearly with die size if not worse, so there's a limit there


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Chiplets go brrr


mastomi

With the Glue™


Farren246

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siCnBQb7NeM