Big and „small“ cores: what are the reasons?Intel has revealed the Alder Lake CPU architecture, or actually two architectures this time. The CPUs are hybrid and besides the main „big“ ones, there are „little“ cores called Gracemont. These are not just for marketing or for low-power idle tasks like in mobile ARM SoCs, however. Gracemont … Continue reading Gracemont, the (not so) little Alder Lake core (µarch analysis)