I think that’s a major important point. Even if the whole of the HPC market
were clamouring for it (which they’re not, judging by this discussion) that’s
still a very small proportion of the worldwide CPU market. We have to remember
that we in the HPC community are a niche market. I recall at SC a couple of
years ago someone from Intel pointing out that mobile devices and IoT were what
was driving IT technology; the volume dwarfs everything else. Hence the drive
to NVRAM - not to make things faster for HPC (although that was the benefit
being presented through that talk), but the fundamental driver was to increase
phone battery life.
Tim
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On 19 Jun 2021, at 16:49, Gerald Henriksen
<ghenr...@gmail.com<mailto:ghenr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I suspect that is marketing speak, which roughly translates to not
that no one has asked for it, but rather requests haven't reached a
threshold where the requests are viewed as significant enough.
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