Intel could bring 3D V-cache equipped processors with the Nova Lake lineup. A recent leak has suggested there will be at least two SKUs that have bLLC or ‘big Last Line Cache.’
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I’m a little confused by this rumored lineup … who exactly is the 52-core count consumer i9 chip for and why? I suppose the prosumer market Apple likes to play in but at 52 cores that seems solidly a workstation chip, no? I’m all for consumer chips eating away the professional market and bringing new capabilities to the masses, but, at the risk of making a similar declaration as “640K ought to be enough for anybody”*, how many consumers would benefit from that right now or even in the near future (without also needing all the other things PC workstation chips typically come with)? What are their workloads? Again I suppose Apple’s Ultra CPUs are sort of in this space but only because their performance per core is so much higher - their core count is still relatively small, 32. Admittedly the P-core count is higher, 24 Apple vs 16 Intel, but again that has more to do with the different core design philosophies. How does Intel afford that many cores on silicon even if most of the are E-cores and still sell the chip at a reasonable price for consumers?
I suppose it’s what AMD did to Intel with the original Ryzens and Threadrippers (i.e. cost effective HEDT that overlapped with the workstation/server market), but AMD benefited from a sclerotic Intel that hadn’t updated consumer core counts in forever and enough software was straining against those limits. I’m not sure the same applies here but maybe I’m wrong?
*Bill Gates supposed utterance of this is likely a myth
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