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by c2h5oh 2871 days ago
Because it's not free. Communication between cores in different CCXes (and memory access - there is a single memory controller per CCX) has slightly higher latency than within a single CCX (or a monolithic CPU, but here Intel's advantage decreases with core count due to a different interconnect).

Also because they didn't have to innovate - no competition since early Opterons.