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AMD Announces Triple-Core Phenom Processors
MojoKid writes "AMD has officially announced their triple-core Phenom multi-core processor offering, suggesting a triple-threat of processors, from dual-cores to triple-cores and native quad-cores coming to market this year. While the term symmetric multi-processing (or SMP) suggests a balanced approach of multiple cores in an even number of engines working together on a single workload, AMD offers that an odd number of processors can slice at that workload just as efficiently. Time will tell how this architecture will scale amongst various multi-threaded applications and real-world usage models. AMD is definitely moving to make use of these quad-cores that don't quite make the cut by testing them fully as triple-cores and realizing some revenue, rather than throwing them away."
that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
I'm holding out for a processor that goes to 11.
Funny but seriously, my advice is, don't buy a multicore CPU until they get it right. If a multicore CPU or concurrent programming language or operating system does not support fine-grain, instruction-level parallelism in a MIMD (multiple instruction, multiple data) environment, it is crap. The computer market is looking for fine-grain parallel systems that are fast, secure, easy to program, auto-scalable and bug free. The crap that I see out there does not even come close to delivering what the market wants.
The Age of Crappy Concurrency: Erlang, Tilera, AMD, IBM, Freescale, etc...
What's the best SKU for smacking you upside the head with a baseball bat?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.