Intel Comet Lake-S Desktop CPUs rumoured to sport up to 10 cores

[DanceswithUnix]

Apologies if that came across wrong, when i say per chiplet i mean per silicon die, as in loads of four core dies/chiplets can be put on a single substrate, fewer than four would increase yields but comes with the disadvantage of having to connect more dies together.

Indeed, and whilst CPUs do tend to be clustered in quads (I notice the new Amazon Graviton ARM chip is 16 CPUs arranged in four quad clusters) you could put lots of quad core clusters on a chiplet. So yes fewer that 4 wouldn't make sense, but the upper limit on how many cores you put on is where it gets interesting.

[Peter Parker]

Indeed, and whilst CPUs do tend to be clustered in quads (I notice the new Amazon Graviton ARM chip is 16 CPUs arranged in four quad clusters) you could put lots of quad core clusters on a chiplet. So yes fewer that 4 wouldn't make sense, but the upper limit on how many cores you put on is where it gets interesting.

Well I can think of one reason to have less than 4 cores. In the past AMD had 3 cores with the Phenom X3, but that was just 4 with one bad core disabled to avoid wasting the whole lot. I guess if yields are good enough, there's no value in having a 3 core product?

[DanceswithUnix]

Well I can think of one reason to have less than 4 cores. In the past AMD had 3 cores with the Phenom X3, but that was just 4 with one bad core disabled to avoid wasting the whole lot. I guess if yields are good enough, there's no value in having a 3 core product?

I meant architecturally. Die salvage parts will always be a thing.