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96 cores? Have they packed 12 (8-Core) CCDs into this? That's insane.

Yeah, its the same as EPYC Genoa.

Theoretically they could pack in 192 cores with the 16-core die, but haven't done so (on EPYC) for reasons unknown to me. Maybe a physical packaging limitation?

Probably thermals, at ~3W/core TDP, 192 cores is gettingg close to 600W to dissipate from a single socket, which is beyond all off the normal heatsink/watercooling solutions I'm aware of

Yeah, that it plausible, though it seems like they could just run the cores a little slower.

There are some pretty interesting cooling solutions in development. Will be interesting to see which ones become economical enough for mass market use.

That's Zen 4c, which I don't think is ready yet? I'm pretty sure 192c/384t* at ~4Ghz EPYC is on the way, although that might be a Zen 5c product (so... 2025, 26?)

*wow, core counts so big I found it slightly difficult to multiply by 2 in my head.

Its Bergamo, which tops out at 128C (8 dies) and supposedly is already available to cloud companies.

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