Comments on: New Intel quad-core chips are really double duo-cores

To stay competitive, Intel is taking familiar steps with its Kentsfield, Clovertown, and Tigeron quad-core server and PC chips.
Photo: Intel four-cores

[fred dunn]

Dumb Idea! Chips have to talk through FSB

Having to dual core chips in the same package is no different than having two dual core chips in a system, they are going to have to communicate with each other through the front side bus which means major delays for the whole system.
The ideal situation is to have an intenal bus that performs arbitration between ALL the cores and their associated cache.
This is just a workaround and a weak one at that just so Intel can say they were first to market, bad idea.

[fred dunn]

Dumb Idea! Chips have to talk through FSB

Having to dual core chips in the same package is no different than having two dual core chips in a system, they are going to have to communicate with each other through the front side bus which means major delays for the whole system.
The ideal situation is to have an internal bus and logic that performs arbitration between ALL the cores and their associated cache.
This is just a workaround and a weak one at that just so Intel can say they were first to market, bad idea.

[nanikore]

uhhh huh. Riiiiiight.

So much delay that it improves content creation performance by 80%.

HUGE DELAY there, righto?