Not a little thing at all, but it is being taken care of by competent architects, who have succeeded at making very competitive high performing micro-architectures in the past.
We know about Ventana Veyron, TBA before end of year, and Tenstorrent's Ascalon, TBA 2024, led by Wei-han Lien, previously lead architect of Apple M1.
Ascalon is 8-wide, but also has smaller siblings at lesser decoder width, to cover a range of uses. According to a recent presentation by Jim Keller, it is expected to be competitive with projected Zen5 (also TBA 2024) performance but using considerably less power.
There's also strong teams at Rivos, MIPS and SiFive working on very high performance cores, but we know less about these efforts.
I know it is hard, which is why i am skeptical. XYZ is "working on" fast cores is years to decades away from "Server with XYZ cores now available to buy from vendor ABC"
Really hard.
>Other than that one little thing
Not a little thing at all, but it is being taken care of by competent architects, who have succeeded at making very competitive high performing micro-architectures in the past.
We know about Ventana Veyron, TBA before end of year, and Tenstorrent's Ascalon, TBA 2024, led by Wei-han Lien, previously lead architect of Apple M1.
Ascalon is 8-wide, but also has smaller siblings at lesser decoder width, to cover a range of uses. According to a recent presentation by Jim Keller, it is expected to be competitive with projected Zen5 (also TBA 2024) performance but using considerably less power.
There's also strong teams at Rivos, MIPS and SiFive working on very high performance cores, but we know less about these efforts.