[HN Gopher] CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400...
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       CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2026-01-06 21:46 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | mrlonglong wrote:
       | 256 cores on a die. Stunning.
        
         | jauntywundrkind wrote:
         | Intel's Clearwater Forest could be shipping even sooner, 288
         | cores. https://chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-clearwater-forest-e-
         | core...
         | 
         | It's a smaller denser core but still incredibly incredibly
         | promising and so so neat.
        
           | jsheard wrote:
           | Someone needs to try running Crysis on that bad boy using the
           | D3D WARP software rasterizer. No GPU. For science.
        
           | mrlonglong wrote:
           | Ah, I omitted to mention that with 256 cores, you get 512
           | threads.
        
         | epistasis wrote:
         | That's going to run Cities Skylines 2 really really well.
        
           | mort96 wrote:
           | Does it actually scale well to that many cores? If so, that's
           | quite impressive; most video game simulations of that kind
           | benefits more from few fast cores since parallelizing
           | simulations well is difficult
        
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