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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. Re:mmmm cores by Nahor · · Score: -1, Troll

    You must be new here, don't you that know *BSD are dead?