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MobiusHorizons 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Uniqu...

That’s how I had always thought about mainframes before, but the focus on low latency here seems to suggest a different purpose (more sports car like than any x86 server cpu) is this a different kind of mainframe?

yencabulator 5 months ago [–]

The freight train part of my thinking is admittedly dated .

This is an impressively fast design, but you'll get much more x86 for the same money -> x86 wins when you can scale out.

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