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Skymont: Intel's E-Cores reach for the Sky
The 2020s were a fun time for Intel’s Atom line, which went from an afterthought to playing a major role across Intel’s high performance client offerings.
Lunar Lake’s quad core Skymont cluster sits on a low power island, letting it handle light background tasks without waking the P-Cores. Intel fighting hard to retain the laptop market that it nearly dominated a decade ago, and Lunar Lake is the result of a big company steaming ahead with all boilers lit. Estimating memory side cache latency is difficult because testing with a 8 MB array will result in about half the accesses hitting in L2, assuming a non-LRU L2 replacement policy.
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