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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Intel next-gen Arrow Lake-S CPU to feature 3MB cache per each Performance core

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-next-gen-arrow-lake-s-cpu-to-feature-3mb-cache-per-each-performance-core

A couple weeks ago I wrote that MLiD reported that Intel were to ditch hyperthreading, and got met with much [x] Doubt due to the source.

Well, now hardware times also comes with this, and explains how rentable units are apparently actually better than hyperthreading to fill up the pipeline of a given CPU:

https://www.hardwaretimes.com/intel-15th-gen-cpus-to-get-rentable-units-why-hyper-threading-is-going-away/

If this is true, then no wonder Intel were to ditch hyperthreading in favor of rentable units (also: worst name ever, as it sounds very much like unlockable cores against paying Intel tons of cash when it's something different entirely). The drawback of RUs are a need for big and close caches, so raising the sizes of L2 caches seems very much like working into that direction, as is the explosion of core numbers with Intel's e-core inflation.