Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
At what point does adding cores to a microprocessor stop being a help and start becoming a gimmick?
The first chip, the Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor, will be available in November. Intel says it will deliver a 70 percent performance improvement over Intel's current chips, which have one or two computing cores. If I read this right they're doubling the cores but not the performance. As I said....
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