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neysofu on Feb 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

Didn't Intel try precisely that with Itanium, only for it to fail spectacularly?

masklinn on Feb 13, 2020 [–]

Wasn’t itanium mostly the reverse, expectations that compiler heuristics would take care of the architectural complexity?

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