On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Steven S. Critchfield > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Of course I still don't understand the idea of just 3 cores. > > Correct meif I'm wrong, but I would assume the 3-core product is > simply a 4-core cpu which had some kind of manufacturing defect in 1 > core. Rather than throw the whole thing away or disable a perfectly > good core to sell it as simply a dual-core, they charge a few bucks > more and sell it as a triple core. > > And if their mfg process improves such that the number of defective > cores is less than the demand for 3-core cpus, they can simply disable > a core in an otherwise good 4-core package and sell it as 3-core. But > I imagine this will be fairly uncommon. > > Wayne > > > > I am fairly certain the AMD chips are designed as 3-core. A quick google finds http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/09/tricore
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