On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 at 7:50am, Craig Tierney wrote

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

What do you mean by 'real' dual core chips?  What features
do you think are missing on Intel Dual Core?

Sorry -- I should have clarified that. What I meant was the Pentium D and current Xeon dual cores, which just have the 2 separate cores in the same package, talking to each other over an external, slow (compared to the cores) bus. To me, that's very obviously a slapped-together "we're getting out butts kicked" response to the rather more elegant AMD solution. And it shows, especially in the power consumption numbers.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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