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AMD Quad Cores, Oh My

Posted by timothy on from the just-right-kill dept.

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?"

2 of 423 comments (clear)

  1. Short Answer by sp0rk173 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yes, Yes we do.

  2. Re:Do we really need the extra cores? by cuerty · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We need it and in a beowulf cluster.

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    >Linux is not user-friendly.
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