AMD Going Dual-Core In 2005

gr8_phk writes "We recently learned of Intel's plans to go dual-core in late 2005. Well it seems AMD has decided to follow suit. It should be noted that the K8 architecture has had this designed in from the start. Will this be socket 939 or should I try to hold out another year to buy?"

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End of moores law?

[sploxx]

Is this the end of moores law, at least in the form of CPU speeds doubling every 18 months?
There are essentially two CPUs, I doubt each of them will get 2x faster the next 1.5 years :)

Re:Why not quad core?

[isorox]

6 is the right number, it divides up so easilly. 6*1, 3*2, 2*3, or any combination.

3 is just ugly.

Re:SMP and Windows stability?

[DrHex]

So in essence we end up with systems that crash harder and faster, much like Steve Austin did in that 70s Series, The Six Million Dollar Man. How about coders get their overall quality of code production up before we hand them MORE computing horsepower to waste and continue to perpetuate the insane computational power increase while all the while not really addressing the CORE issues around a solid stable code base. Once again, Linux and the BSDs will leap ahead of Windows thanks to their more stable code base and we'll see the distance stretched between Mainstream and the techies.

Overall, this will just mean users will see the blue screen and crashes all that much faster.

As a friend of mine said a few nights ago when he fired up his new PC with WindowsXP. Why isn't this working better, they've had 3 years to fix this??? Why fix it when people keep paying for your crap?

Just a thought and maybe slightly off-topic.