Comments on: For Intel, the future has two cores

Chipmaker turns to a more-is-better approach, downplaying chip speeds in favor of new features and designs.

Lousy sport

"This is not a race."
Really? A severe case of "the grapes are sour anyway". Is this a not-so-well-hidden admission of defeat? Intel is long overdue for a good beating for their arrogance and disregard of consumer's interests (RAMBUS, GHz race).

[Tex Murphy PI]

Dual core not ready from prime-time

Until more applications start becoming multi-threaded, the second processor will remain pretty much under-utilized - unless you are in a server environment.

I think it's sad that many companies are now concentrating on multi-core CPUs at the expense of improving the core CPU itself, which tend to have a better speed boost.

Disagree? Look at Sun, which recently cancelled their next generation core in favor of concentrating on multi-core chips. Let's hope that Intel and AMD do not fall for the marketting appeal of the multi-core race, and continue to improve on the core processors themselves.

My bet is that multi-core desktops will be somewhat useful in maybe five to ten years. We've been on 32-bit desktop OSes for a decade now, and they're still selling 16-bit software! So that estimation should be on the optimistic side.

[alek_nedic]

Look at Sun

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