Chinese chipmaker readies 128-core, 512-thread CPU with AVX-512 and 16-channel DDR5-5600 support
Chinese chipmaker readies 128-core, 512-thread CPU with AVX-512 and 16-channel DDR5-5600 support
Four threads per core?
Is that useful?
Yes, it's good for low complexity, large scope use cases.
The classic example is transaction processing (that's what those IBM mainframe with 4 way and 8 way SMT are often used for).
I was gonna say this might be more proof of concept than actual applications right now
Make the hardware and they will come...
Has been a thing in IBM processors for years.
They even do 8-way multithreading. Doesn't handle fundamentally different than 2-way, except you have less hardware = less compute per thread. Basically the same as using slower clocking cores, if they hide the multithreading right.