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Dual Caches for Dual-core Chips
DominoTree writes "The dual-core chips that AMD and Intel plan to bring to market next year won't be sharing their memories. A version of Opteron coming in 2005 and Montecito, a future member of Intel's Itanium family also slated for next year, will both have two processor cores, the actual unit inside a processor that performs the calculations, and each core will have separate caches."
but will it make coffee? I didn't think so.
I say we just grow up, be adults and die.
"Montecito", a spanish word, literally translates as "a small monte".
Thus I predict that this will be followed by a quad-core chip called the "monte", an 8-core chip called the "montote" (the big monte), and finally a 16-core chip known as "The Full Monte".
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At some point down the road, they will likely unify them to increase performance.
In the meantime, they should just put a bright red sticker on the box that says "DUAL CACHE!" It is documented, so it's a feature, not a bug.
Can I have a 64bit OS too please? (no not linux)
Didn't you hear? According to SCO, Linux doesn't even exist!
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Thanks for pointing that out, I'm sure a number of people were things "Ooooo Cool two caches" when they should have been thinking "Awwww Damn, two caches!"
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Actually, the left core will be verbal, creative and be really good at procesing visual information, while the right core will be logical, good at number crunching and have no style sense whatsoever.
Well I would buy a computer now but I have no cash
Is that a pun?
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when the wind is blowing westward on odd days of the week you pay for one. when there are clouds on an even day, you pay for two. during leap year, when a west wind blows clouds away at midnight on an even day, you pay for four processors, two computers, a camel, three pci slots, and a partridge in a pear tree.
Can someone who speaks Idiot please translate for me?
Translated: Please mod me +5 funny.
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It's "RISC CPI for the CISC guy"
I can't wait to see what they do to his nonorthogonal register file.
--Rob
Kernel Panic Core Dumped... Still Panicking Dumping Second Core...
Two cache modules mean more pricey chip$.
You know, once you reach the grand old age of, oh I don't know, 14 or so, you'll stop thinking it's cool to put '$' instead of 's' for every word remotely associated with money.
If only one core is defect free, is it possible to disable the dud and sell it as a single core CPU?
Yes, it is possible, in most cases. (Although there are a few types of defects that would prohibit this, such as power shorts).
For example, hypothetically, Intel could sell a single core version of Montecito called the Half Monte and a dual core version called the Full Monte.
...will both have two processor cores, the actual unit inside a processor that performs the calculations...
Oh, so that's what a processor does! Can you remind me again what "RAM" is?