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The single-threaded scores are within a few percent. So a mobile phone is now beating the fastest desktop CPU you can buy. As in, it is faster than every PC in the world... That is a game changer.
Well we now have a mobile phone beating Intel's fastest desktop CPU... at half the frequency and a fraction of the 95W! Unbelievable how fast it happened but it's clear x86 is at the end of it's life now it is trailing on process.
It's easy really: there are 7x12 independent chiplets which need wire bonding to be connected, so you just use the ones that work and route around the ones that don't. Each chiplet may also have redundant blocks but getting 72 working ones out of 84 should be no problem on a mature process.
