Hmm, the 128-core Ampere Altra CPU is already available, and in a case from System76. I wonder what else differentiates it.

If they're going to build CPUs I wish they had used Risc-V instead. They are using it somewhat already.

Vera does what NVIDIA calls Spatial Multithreading, "physically partitioning each core’s resources rather than time slicing them, allowing the system to optimize for performance or density at runtime." A kind of static hyperthreading; you get two threads per core.

It's somewhat different from how x86 chips do simultaneous multithreading (SMT),