Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "why can’t computers have thousands of cores?" video.

  1. According to the top500 list, the current fastest supercomputer in the world, RIKEN’s Fugaku, has 7,630,848 cores. Of course, they’re not x86 cores, they’re ARM. And it’s not running Windows, it’s Linux. That might help.
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  2.  @mikapeltokorpi7671  Not sure why that’s relevant.
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  3.  @Conenion  The problems scale, up to a point. That’s why a supercomputer needs a high-performance interconnect which makes up such a big part of its cost. If it wasn't for that, a supercomputer would not be much different from, say, a server farm.
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