[HN Gopher] CPU of the Day: The Intel Everest Series
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       CPU of the Day: The Intel Everest Series
        
       Author : segfaultbuserr
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2023-02-02 08:43 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | kevbin wrote:
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       | metadat wrote:
       | Kinda sad about the NSA 5.1GHz Broadwell chips, because by now
       | they've surely been decommissioned and destroyed rather than be
       | released back into the wild or donated to the Tech Museum in
       | Mountain View (Broadwell launched in 2014, discontinued 2018).
       | 
       | Above 5GHz non-turbo clock in 2014 is an impressive figure. The
       | stuff I dreamed of in the late 90s and early 2000s when I was
       | obsessed with overclocking T-birds from something like 1.2 to
       | 1.6GHz.
       | 
       | R.I.P.
        
       | jscipione wrote:
       | My understanding is that there was another use case for the
       | "Everest" OEM Xeon processors besides stock traders which was to
       | get maximum performance out of the chip while reducing the core
       | count to pay less to run Oracle database with its per core
       | licensing model.
        
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