Gigabyte launches 256-core (Arm) Ready CPU based motherboard
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schmidtbag
Pretty impressive for an ARM server. At first I was going to say the TDP is underwhelming until I realized that's about 2W per core, which is pretty good.
Also, the block diagrams are pretty interesting. Apparently each CPU handles pretty different things. In general, one handles external I/O (USB, networking, displays, etc) while the other handles internal I/O (PCIe and storage).
I could see this being good in the sense that it can minimize data being juggled across the CPUs, but it could be a problem if one of the CPUs is waiting on the other to fetch data.
Undying
Shame these arm cpus do not support HT.
CPC_RedDawn
Arm doesn't use x86 does it?
user1
JJayzX
80 core version beats threadripper 128 thread and with less power consumption. Also ARM doesn't make processors, they make the instruction set, so obviously not x86 chip.
reix2x
cucaulay malkin
All 256 arms on board ...now what do we do
Agonist
Be pretty cool to use for a plex server, and have enough power to do really good on Emulation on PC.
schmidtbag
tsunami231
that is some really nice wattage per core...i am sure alot of would like to see such thing with amd and intel..
reix2x
schmidtbag
anticupidon
Try to find a desktop ARM motherboard.
Good luck. Lots of it.
386SX
Where do the 64 lanes go? Each CPU has 128, so 2x 128 = 256. But 2P is just able to feed 192 lanes.
Are the remaining ones used as CPU interconnect, 32 lanes wide?
schmidtbag
reix2x
schmidtbag