Hetereogeneous computing is nothing new, of course, but typically it has been one type of CPU core and one type of GPU, along with media processing blocks and other small functional units — at least on desktop and notebooks systems. Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs are the first x86-64 processors to embrace a hybrid paradigm with two separate CPU

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