[Tobba_]

I'm not talking about the fundamentally misguided memory-distributed computing stuff, I mean "improve flexibility enough that you can bolt some additional units on as offload" (address translation in this case would take some work though). The magic of presenting software with a more or less monolithic core in this case is that you don't have that problem, since you can simply do it the usual way.

Also, I don't think the trouble with added complexity out of the hot path is any added latency, it's that they're needlessly burning up the thermal budget. Not that raising the voltage is the best way of increasing frequency, but it's sure to do so.