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Giddy! At this rate I will be running a 64 Core processor on my desktop in 2 years!

Well depending on if the rumors about the 64 core Threadripper are true you could do that later this year or maybe early next year

and still have some I/O operation block your entire GUI/OS :D

More likely sleep with lock.

elaborate?

I think they're pointing out that many of the bottlenecks that make computers feel slow can't be fixed by throwing more cores at them—multithreading can be tricky

You could have 128 cores, 4TB of memory, multiple top-end NVMe drives and Windows will still lock up when accessing an offline network share.

Good job Microsoft.

you can solve that by ticking a checkmark in `Folder Options` that puts folders in separate processes

I had that issue with OS X 10.11 and disconnecting my Thunderbolt NIC without umounting cleanly.

Argh

There's already a 64-core Threadripper rumored for the end of this year.

Top-tier Ryzen 9 should reach "only" 32 cores on the 5nm process in 2 years.

Is this conjecture or has AMD stated in a roadmap they plan to have 5nm in 2 years?

They're going to use whatever TSMC uses, and TSMC is committed to 5nm. The process is already being tested.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-5nm-euv-process-node,...

> "only" 32 cores

But it might be 4-way SMP, so 128 threads...

I've seen multiple 4-way SMP rumors in comments in the last few weeks. Was there something hinted at, or a "leak" implying this might happen? I did a brief search but didn't find anything.

Just rumors on /r/AMD, who knows?

You can buy a 64 core dual socket EPYC workstation today for ~$15000. I wonder how much cheaper it'll be 2 years from now.

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