Edrick
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Cost. You make the L2 bigger, that increases your die size. And since the L3 is inclusive of the L2, they'd have to increase the size of the L3$ (or move to an exclusive L3).
If the leaks are correct, Intel is also reducing the L3 cache size on Sky-X (from 2.5MB/Core to 1.375MB/Core). So overall, these CPUs will have less total cache than previous Xeon CPUs. Does this mean Intel is moving to a full exclusive L3 model? How will this impact performance?