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This is Intel making a 24 core Neoverse N2 server on TSMC - not their ISA, not their core design, and not their fab

It's quite interesting. Basically Nitro on a stick. For the "repatriation" crowd this seems appealing. But would you invest in the software necessary to exploit this, knowing that Intel could lose interest or just go bankrupt with little warning?

Hah, I was not imagining it https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+E2200... same name as an old cpu.

Intel putting CPUs on an expansion card? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Inboard_386

Is the name based on the Australian Mount Morgan that was once the largest gold mine in the world? One of the owners of it invested everything earned from the mine into Persian oil exploration and created what eventually became BP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Knox_D%27Arcy

The ability to connect to 4 hosts makes it seem like MRIOV all over again! Still, it does look like a fun device from the 'big arm chip with lots of connectivity' side

I hope their Linux code isn’t as out-dated and buggy as their IPMI system.