Kevin Karhan 
@HopelessDemigod well, DM&P does pull off legacy designs in embedded and Industrial with their #Vortex86 series going down to #i486SX.
- Obviously if they didn't sell passively-cooled SOMs on older structural widths, they could in theory kick this beyond 4 GHz.
It's just that there are very few workloads that need absurdly-fast, single-threaded performance* and ain't designed for #POWER9 / #OpenPOWER or #s390x / #zArchitecture mainframes.
- Like it's cheaper to just get an #embedded multicore with like 4x1,5GHz that maxes out at 15W and can be confogured down to 4W and will be overall more responsive and faster in any other workload.
And the few workloads that ain't multithreaded may be coaxed into it with like #vmware #ESXi mashing together multiple hardware threads into one superfast single thread, but I'd say that the vestigal compatibility of like an i7-6700K should potentially work fine, and worst-case one just setsit up to only use 1C/1T and constantly turbo-boost @ 91W TDP…
Kevin Karhan 
