Intel is now a dual-core chip maker. Did they just thumb their noses at IBM?
Maybe they are responding ot IBM and Apple has dual core machines ready to go for WWDC. Pure fantasy on my part but hey you never know. The bigger issue as I se it is that IBM has potentially one more rev possible that would be single core, so Intel could beat them to market. In between all this is the reality that the CPU cores from both IBM and Motorola/Freescale are relatively small, it should not be difficult to move to dual cores in some manner relatively quickly.
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What's our dual-core outlook?
I think short term like to the end of the year not good, becomeing very good after that. As stated above there is always the possibility that Intel is responding to something we don't know that may be coming from Apple short term. As to long term the rational approach is more cores on chip, if clock rates can be kept up.
As to systems, the community (MAC, Windows, Liunx & whatever) is now to the point that SMP makes very good sense. All of the available OS's can make good use of it and it is recieved very well by the users of the hardware/software. So it has to be on the road map somewhere. The cost of OS support has been paid for, it is only a matter of lowering hardware cost to make SMP pervasive. Pervasive it will be too as there are to many benefits to ignore it. Everything from game stations to home robots will be making use of dual core SMP technology.
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Originally posted by opuscroakus
Intel is now a dual-core chip maker. Did they just thumb their noses at IBM?
Maybe they are responding ot IBM and Apple has dual core machines ready to go for WWDC. Pure fantasy on my part but hey you never know. The bigger issue as I se it is that IBM has potentially one more rev possible that would be single core, so Intel could beat them to market. In between all this is the reality that the CPU cores from both IBM and Motorola/Freescale are relatively small, it should not be difficult to move to dual cores in some manner relatively quickly.
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What's our dual-core outlook?
I think short term like to the end of the year not good, becomeing very good after that. As stated above there is always the possibility that Intel is responding to something we don't know that may be coming from Apple short term. As to long term the rational approach is more cores on chip, if clock rates can be kept up.
As to systems, the community (MAC, Windows, Liunx & whatever) is now to the point that SMP makes very good sense. All of the available OS's can make good use of it and it is recieved very well by the users of the hardware/software. So it has to be on the road map somewhere. The cost of OS support has been paid for, it is only a matter of lowering hardware cost to make SMP pervasive. Pervasive it will be too as there are to many benefits to ignore it. Everything from game stations to home robots will be making use of dual core SMP technology.
Thanks
Dave
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