Nice! Now i have an choice of chinese flavoured backdoors as opposed to the american flavoured backdoors in my processor.
Four threads per core?
Is that useful?
Yes, it’s good for low complexity, large scope use cases.
The classic example is transaction processing (that’s what those IBM mainframe with 4 way and 8 way SMT are often used for).
I was gonna say this might be more proof of concept than actual applications right now
Make the hardware and they will come…
Has been a thing in IBM processors for years.
They even do 8-way multithreading. Doesn’t handle fundamentally different than 2-way, except you have less hardware = less compute per thread. Basically the same as using slower clocking cores, if they hide the multithreading right.
The article ain’t clear on this, but it seems this an x86 CPU.
Curious to see multi-thread benchmarks for this CPU (I am assuming ST is subar and many years behind American CPU companies).
I wonder why they’re still proceeding with x86 instead of focusing on ARM or RISC-V. If you don’t have to worry about running Windows it seems like x86 is less future proof.
AVX-512 is x86’s SIMD extension.
Good point! Didn’t think of that.
