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Dual Caches for Dual-core Chips

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the doubling-your-pleasure dept.

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."

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  1. Commodity hardware grows mature. by Skulker303 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Daul core microprocessors are not a new development. IBM with their POWER4 and POWER5, HP and the PA-RISC 8800, and TI with their OMAP processors are definitive proof that multi-core solutions are not just a stop gap in increasing the performance delta of modern silicon.

    Daul core processors are a natural evolution in the development of general purpose and even specialized computing devices. SMT was to be a boon for the EV8, but later found its way into the Pentium4. Multiple logical processors were just a first step.

    It should be interesting to see just what AMD can do with both SMT and a daul core design.

    It just had better run BSD. = )