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Intel And AMD's Dual-Core CPUs Investigated

Posted by timothy on from the smooshing-together dept.

Hack Jandy writes "Anandtech has a bunch of insider information concerning Intel and AMD's move to dual-core CPUs. The article has lots of great information on how the move to dual-core processors affects modern computing - in particular, Anand sees more promise in multiple CPU cores that perform different operations, rather than just stamping two identical cores on the same processor like AMD and Intel are doing now."

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  1. Slow Gimpy CPU? by DarkHelmet · · Score: 5, Funny
    The idea of putting two cores, one fast and one slow, in a CPU has already been proposed numerous times

    Look Ma! I got a Ferrari that when you press a button becomes a Yugo!

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    1. Re:Slow Gimpy CPU? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yay reintroduce the TURBO button then.

  2. Hrmm... by Arcanix · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is just me or does it seem odd they are using x20, x30, and x40 for names? I guess x20 + x30 + x40 does make an x90, slightly better than my x86.

  3. I had one of these years ago by taxevader · · Score: 4, Funny



    My old PC had this, it was called a turbo button.

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  4. PPC + x86 cores? by youknowmewell · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would it be possible to have a dual core processor with both a PPC and a x86 core?

  5. Re:Yeah, not my favorate idea. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember that the older AMD proccessors would start smoking and then effectively stop working.

    An engineer I used to work with figured it all out (through much first hand experience). He deduced that chips were really just plastic capsules of compressed smoke, since when the smoke came out, they didn't work any more. He was planning a start-up company to re-inject the smoke and make them work again.

  6. Re:Yeah, not my favorate idea. by vakuona · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in the battle of Waterloo.

  7. The TURBO button ruled! by SlashdotMeNow · · Score: 1, Funny

    I loved that button! Computer goes fast, computer goes slow. Computer goes fast, computer goes slow. Computer goes fast, computer goes slow.

    Yay!