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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?"

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  1. Re:Do we really need the extra cores? by nick_davison · · Score: 1, Troll

    most programs haven't even got the ability to hyperthread, so do we really need the extra cores?

    Bill - we know it's really you - will you ever learn? Programs used not to need more than 640Kb of ram, either.

    Can't really blame the guy for posting under an alias. It's not like he and his company's all that popular around here.