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Tesla Semi Wins Range Test Against Volvo, Freightliner, and Nikola

Tesla may have won out on this test because its Pepsi drivers were more focused on long-distance distribution, while other manufacturers represented were making more frequent regional stops. For example, the longest mileage day for the Tesla Semi incorporated just five stops, while the Nikola made 13 deliveries and one of the eCascadias did 10.

That’s a pretty big caveat to put halfway through the article.

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Why are there so many different AMD/Intel CPUs?

Why does it make (commercial) sense for AMD/Intel to create so many models?

Because there is demand for various types of systems. And on top of that, if you make a chip with 8 cores and two are defective… just sell a 6 core chip instead of throwing it away.

What are their incentives?

Money

What would happen, if they would reduce the amount of different CPUs they offer? (Is there historical knowledge?)

They would lose customers to competitors in that space. When AMD didn’t make EPYC chips, all servers were Intel Xeon.