Are Intel And IBM Cheating With Their Quad-Core Processors?
– http://www.informationweek.com/…/are_intel_and_i.html Intel Core2 Quad Processors – “Leaders of the pack seeking monster performance, look no further. With four execution cores, the Intel Core2 Quad processor blows through processor-intensive tasks in demanding multitasking environments and makes the most of highly threaded applications. Whether you’re creating multimedia, annihilating your gaming enemies, or running compute-intensive applications at one time, new quad-core processing will change the way you do everything. Pioneer the new world of quad-core and unleash the power of multithreading.” – http://www.intel.com/products/processor/core2quad/index.htm Do More Cores Beat More Clock Speed? – “Nearly everyone whos followed CPU [processor] technology over the past two years knows that quad cores have a distinct performance advantage in a wide variety of professional applications, because many applications are designed for multi-threading.
