SCC chip up close
4 of 8 from Intel's 48-core processor debut (photos)
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Intel's SCC chip's x86 cores each are comparable in power to the lower-end Atom line used in Netbooks today. Intel expects programmers eventually will have to reckon with many more cores. That's an issue that the computing industry is struggling to adjust to because most PC software is geared to perform a single sequence of instructions, not many things in parallel.
December 2, 2009 5:20 PM PST
Photo by: Intel
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