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To: Scumbria who wrote (28682)	2/15/2001 5:31:57 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Scumbria, <Use five cores, save 50% die area, and have a supercomputer for $50.> Sure, and use two cores, save 80% die area, yada yada. There are still tons of applications out there which are single-threaded and won't benefit from multiple cores, or SMT, or any sort of thread-level parallelism in general. IBM's Power4 makes sense because server applications can benefit tremendously from thread-level parallelism. But that's still improving the performance only for specific purposes. The good thing about continuing the pursuit for single-threaded performance is that it can benefit all applications, including those which are multi-threaded. What good is having two cores for a given die size when you can have one core that does 2x the performance per core? Tenchusatsu P.S. - We already have a "supercomputer on a chip." It's called the G4. (Speaking of which, I've got a "mainframe in a console" called the Nintendo 64.) ;-)

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