arstechnica.com — For better or for worse, today's official launch of the Core 2 Quad Q6600 puts us well into the quad-core era. Not even Hennessy and Patterson, much less the coders at the world's largest software company, can think of enough ways to keep all four cores busy, but here we are nonetheless...
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washingtonianJan 9, 2007
Hate to be a stickler, but the PII/200 did not exist. At 200 Mhz, it was either a Pentium, Pentium w/ MMX, or Pentium Pro. PII's started at 233 and 266Mhz.
realitychequeJan 9, 2007
So are you suggesting that they will happen BECAUSE you PLAN to research them?I won't hold my breath on that, kid.
rabbitofdeathJan 9, 2007
One OS to rule them all: ESX 3
trm3446Jan 9, 2007
i don't care how this works, but as long as i get my porn faster, i'm all over it
rmxzJan 9, 2007
@simpleid: Are n-cores really the future though? I hope light-based systems actually happen, that or just anything actually revolutionary.Not so much the future, but very much the present in the server space. Sun's current server chips have 8 cores per die; and any high-end server with single-or-dual-core chips has to make up for it by adding multiple CPUs. But multi-core on a single chip is better from a inter processor communication and power consumption point of view.<a class="user" href="http://tweakers.net/reviews/649/2">http://tweakers.net/reviews/649/2</a>Well written server software can very effectively take advantage of these chips<a class="user" href="http://tweakers.net/reviews/649/7">http://tweakers.net/reviews/649/7</a>And also the present in gaming systems - doesnt the XBox have a 3-core chip and the PS3 something like 9?
ibgordoJan 9, 2007
"For better or for worse, today's official launch of the Core 2 Quad Q6600 puts us well into the quad-core era. Not even Hennessy and Patterson, much less the coders at the world's largest software company, can think of enough ways to keep all four cores busy, but here we are nonetheless."I have a feeling history will look back at this comment in the same way we now look back at "Why would anybody need 4MB of RAM"
mateyoJan 10, 2007
Washingtonian:You're probably right, what's funny is: it's only half the story...the box started out as a DIGITAL (as in DEC) Pentium 90 that we upgraded to a Pentium Pro 200. The CPU was on a daughtercard. Actually the whole system was pretty well engineered.