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AMD Quad Cores, Oh My
Lullabye_Muse writes "From engadget we learn that AMD has plans for putting 4 cores on one die by the time Apple has fully gone to Intel processors. Full story here. They say they could eventually have up to 32 cores with scalable technology, but most programs haven't even got the ability to hyperthread, so do we really need the extra cores?"
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Of cores we do!
Now that Intel is running with Apple, Intel must be Doomed (tm).
4 cores on one chip... I guess they will have to call it the earth simulator as the temprature of the chip will be reaching that of the earths core.
At least it will open up innovative new designs like built in coffee pot as well as new uses for old technology, like making pizza pops in your old cd burner.
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You're clearly two characters too long. Even shorter answer: 1.
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What we have here is a failure to communicate.
AMD semiconductor manufacturer petitioneed the NRC for a rule change to allow small home use nuclear reactors, saying in the application "consumers will need it".
Also, they announced the acquisition of the frigidaire refrigeration company for an undisclosed amount, saying that "our product lines have a mutual synergy".
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You're clearly 15 bits too long.
The logic that says the scarcity of hyperthreading programs means that multicore dies don't benefit from lots of cores is wrong. Once in the hyperthreading game, more cores is better. So few hyperthreading programs might mean less reason for multicores, but once there is a reason, the more cores the better. It's like saying that most people don't drive, so there's no need for really fast cars. That kind of fuzzy illogic is completely common in the media. On Slashdot, where we'd like to think we can think, it's really irritating.
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So spywear authors should write better code so their programs don't tie up the processor? :)
My guess is that most current spywear is not multithreaded due to universiality and size contraints, but as you state, we can soon look forward to better quality, bug free, multithreaded spyware soon.
Perhaps Microsoft should hire some of these guys. Anyone who can write code that allows hundreds of instances of a program run without swamping the processor is a better programmer than the current crop that is designing Office, for example.
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i think you mean to say "no one will ever need more than 640 thousand cores"
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