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Processors: More, yes, but better?

September 27, 2009 – 8:10 pm

Last week’s Intel Developers’ Forum brought the expected crop of new CPU chips. The simplest way to summarize what’s taking place is this:

We’re stuck at 3GHz, so we add more processors on the CPU chip.
Intel continues to lead with small “geometries”, 32 nanometers today, 22 nm tomorrow.
The company pitches its x-86 processors for mobile devices.

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Technology / Multicore Processors: More is Better, Right?

July 7, 2008 – 5:56 pm

Lies, damned lies and benchmarks. So goes an old industry joke setting up an ascending order of offenses to the truth. Old joke but alive and well in the latest industry trend: the recourse to multicore processors in our PCs. Here, multicore means several processor modules (cores) on the same CPU (Central Processing [...]

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