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[Damien McKenna]

Its not until you start reading about how Intel decided to make their
latest dual-core CPU two physically separate cores on one physical chip
that you realize how truly horrendous their design is:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2658

Page 3 has a great quote:
"Intel's architecture, featuring no on-die memory controller, allows for
such a split to be made without any major changes.  Even on Smithfield,
all traffic between the cores actually had to travel out one core, off
the chip and onto the external FSB and then back into the other core.
With Presler, the same type of communication can take place without any
disruptions, the only difference is that the data from core to core has
a slightly longer distance to travel."

Aweful, simply aweful.

You can strap a rocket to a turd but its still a turd :o)

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Damien McKenna - Web Developer - Damien.McKenna at thelimucompany.com
The Limu Company - http://www.thelimucompany.com/ - 407-804-1014
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