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Comment by vova_hn2 | Hacker News Reader

I found this article extremely frustrating to read. Maybe I lack some required prior knowledge and I am not the target audience for this.

> built on the Arm Neoverse platform

What the heck is "Arm Neoverse"? No explanation given, link leads to website in Chinese. Using Firefox translating tool doesn't help much:

> Arm Neoverse delivers the best performance from the cloud to the edge

What? This is just a pile of buzzwords, it doesn't mean anything.

The article doesn't seem to contain any information on how much it costs or any performance benchmarks to compare it with other CPUs. It's all just marketing slop, basically.

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> The ARM Neoverse is a group of 64-bit ARM processor cores licensed by Arm Holdings. The cores are intended for datacenter, edge computing, and high-performance computing use. The group consists of ARM Neoverse V-Series, ARM Neoverse N-Series, and ARM Neoverse E-Series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Neoverse

More precisely, this Neoverse V3 core is the server version of the Cortex-X4 core from smartphones. The actual core is pretty much identical, but the cache memories and the interfaces between cores are different.

Neoverse V3 is also used in AWS Graviton5 and in several NVIDIA products.

I feel like this is most products in the AI space lately. More marketing fuzz than substance. Hard to figure out what thing even does.

You should look at the benchmarks of the Cortex-X4 cores used in many smartphones from 2 years ago, because it is the same core as Neoverse V3.

AWS Graviton5 uses the same cores, but it has 192 cores per socket.

So Graviton5 has more cores per socket, but I think that it does not support dual socket boards.

This Arm AGI supports dual socket boards, so it provides 272 cores per board, more than Graviton5 MBs.

However, this is puny in comparison with Intel Clearwater Forest, which provides 576 cores per board, and the Intel Darkmont cores are almost exactly equivalent for all characteristics with Arm Neoverse V3.

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