4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care?

Posted by timothy on Monday July 19, 2010 @11:40AM from the 8-cores-a-dollar dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Intel has updated its processor price list earlier today. Common sense suggests that Intel may not care that much anymore whether its customers know what they are actually buying. One new six-core processor slides in between six-core and quad-core processors – and its sequence number offers no clues about cores, clock speed, and manufacturing process. If we remember the gigahertz race just a decade ago, it is truly stunning to see how the CPU landscape has changed. Today, processors carry sequence numbers that are largely meaningless."

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Re:They make perfect sense to a ph.d. professor by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-19 11:58 · Score: 4, Informative

What about telling him the truth ?
The sequence number is assigned by the marketing department in order to confuse you. By making it harder for you to know what you're buying, they decrease your bargaining power which allow them to charge you more.