Just as the bragging rights for dual-core chip supremacy are dying down, Intel gave the first glimpse of a quad-core chip coming next year.
Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating-point operations per second.
Stacking chips atop one another could be the latest option that Intel might employ to increase performance over the next 10 years, a company executive said on Thursday at the Intel Developer Forum.
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AMD will soon begin selling its low-power, quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron processors.
Intel demonstrated two quad-core processors Tuesday in the United States, "Clovertown" for servers and "Kentsfield" for PCs, directing attention toward the future during a more troubled present.
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Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.
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