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From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
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Subject: Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture
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In article <20240923105336.0000119b@yahoo.com>, already5chosen@yahoo.com
(Michael S) wrote:

> mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) wrote:
> > When only 1 x86 would fit on a die, it really did not mater
> > much. I was at AMD when they were designing their memory
> > model.

> Why # of CPU cores on die is of particular importance?

Because multi-core made multi-processor systems commonplace, and far more
software started using multiple threads. 

John