Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Oct 2005 10:51 UTC
Actually, there's more on processors today, but the processor in this article is so out-of-the-ordinary, that it deserves its own item. "Niagara has eight processing engines - called cores - each able to simultaneously execute four instruction sequences called threads. It's neither the first multicore processor nor the first to employ multithreading, but it embraces both ideas more aggressively than competing chips from IBM, Intel and AMD."
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2005-07-06
The intel isa is killing computing. It's an Energy hog!
BS. The cost of supporting x86 is a few million transistors in the corner of the chip. It was a was a big deal back in the heyday or RISC, but as transistor bugdets get bigger, the circuitry required for x86 compatibility becomes more and more negligable.