Intel details 14 dual-core Ivy Bridge processors ahead of Computex

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/31/intel-dual-core-ivy-bridge/

by Garbage • 14 years ago

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ilaksh• 14 years ago

Why do I care about dual-core? I want a reasonably priced six core i7.. or 12 cores would be better.

joenathan• 14 years ago

Paralleling is only going to net so much performance increases, you can't increase cores exponentially and expect performance wins. Better efficiency in single threaded performance will have the most effect for most people.

I think much of the performance increases we will see in the near future will come from better coding, for example Windows 8 is supposed to run faster on older hardware compared to Windows 7(also consider the simplicity of the ui of Windows phone and the resulting snappiness and speed on older hardware), combined with the influx of SSDs we may have reached or are nearing the plateau of performance that the average person would ever care for.

duaneb4• 14 years ago

Most users won't get any effect at all unless they're playing top-end video games.

Anyway, I thought by now we would have 16-core processors.... I don't understand why the "default" one is still two cores.

SkyMarshal2• 14 years ago

As a developer I haven't hit the point where I can have too many cores. When I can run three or six VMs (linux server), each allocated 2 cores (hyperthreaded ones are ok) and at least 1GB RAM each, while simultaneously abusing my browser with too many tabs, with cycles to spare for big desktop apps (Gimp, LibreOffice, etc), then I won't care so much about cores anymore.

That's possible on high-end machines, but I'm looking forward to mid-level laptops being able to do that too.

I do agree that a lot of performance will come from better coding, though. I can see that in my Linksys WRT54GL router, which is 2004 hardware that runs better than most everything else available today, thanks in large part to 8 years of open source software evolution in the firmware.

When software has time to evolve and mature on stable hardware, it's really cool to see the performance that can be weened out of even old hardware.

protomyth2• 14 years ago

Looking at my Mac's activity monitor, I see about 100 processes running. I am pretty sure that more cores would improve performance nicely. It's about the system, not just one program.

truncate• 14 years ago

Amdahl's Law is an interesting analysis to find maximum expected improvement when using multiple processor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahls_law

miahi2• 14 years ago

I see 5 quad core and 9 dual core CPUs in the list.

bbromhead• 14 years ago

Yup... no 14 core chips here

chillax• 14 years ago

As far as I can every cpu is labeled mobile or ultra mobile except for one (which also has has a significantly lower TDP compared to the quad cores).

Intel details 14 dual-core Ivy Bridge processors ahead of Computex

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