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6 Core Processors?
Gamefreek333
Member Posts: 166
in Hardware
My friend told me that AMD is doing 6-Core Processors; so I looked it up on Google and I think that AMD and Intel are doing it. Can anyone confirm this?
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Nahalem will come in 2, 4, and 8 core varieties.
I don't really keep track of what AMD is doing.
Edit: and 6!
Now with 57.3% more flames!
A few months ago, AMD announced that they were doing a doubling up of thier 3-core processors due around beginning of 09
Intel is starting to introduce 6-core Xeons that cost a shitload.
Yup 6 cores. But the idea is flawed. From a marketing standpoint it makes sense for them since processors kinda hit the limits of what technology we have today. Small and minor advancements in power will come, this is why this makes more sense to them. When you can't offer big gains anymore you need to find another area to follow suit in order to gain customers. Adding more cores does this, it allows them to market them in a way to the 90%+ people who know nothing about CPU's and design. Allowing them to market these as something new and better.
For the people who know about it though this is just another step in the holding cell, sort of speaking. This means they are looking to move forward without the public knowing they are far behind in new technology upgrades. Adding more cores does nothing for us atm. CPU manufactures know this but the average consumer doesn't and just sees more cores = better performance.
We barely have gotten past 2 core design which programs can utilize both cores. We are still looking at thousands of applications which do not use multi cores yet. Those that do took awhile to follow. While quad core design is still new it doesn't help much since programs are not using the extra cores. Only patches and several windows updates have allowed the use of quad core. We really need the programers to start coding for multi cores for these processors to be worthwhile to us.
This is why I believe in dual core only atm. I would never go quad or even 6 when it comes out. The small gains in performance you see on benchmarks are from increased speed over the design and not because of adding in more cores. Also the speed increases are mostly trivial on a per cache and instruction set basis.
6 cores is way to far ahead of current programs. People will still buy into it though.
I will own a dual core 1 TB transistor CPU from Intel once they arrive late next year or early 2010 though. Mark my words I will, oh yes I will.
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Do you guys think it will lower the cost of current processors? I think that'd be really great when I buy mine for when I build my computer
The cost of processors is determined by 2 major factors. Competition and performance to price manufacturing. There are other less trivial aspects to determin this. If AMD continues to supply better then Intel in price/performance then Intel will match or lower it's prices on comparable performance CPU's. If a current CPU out switches to a cheaper and faster fabrication process then it's price will be lowered.
I don't see the prices dropping much more then what they are at now until the new processors arrive from the road maps in production RAD.
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