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To: TigerPaw who wrote (177918)5/11/2004 12:24:44 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
TP, the cores will still have to go off chip to a shared northbridge.

True, but that only means Intel will benefit more by reducing bus traffic as much as possible.

Also remember that the fewer processors plugged into a bus, the faster Intel can run that bus. 4-way is probably stuck with a 400 MHz bus, but 2-way can run on a 533 MHz bus (or faster in the near future), and single-processor can run on an 800 MHz bus (or faster). Going with multi-core processors means you don't have to plug in more processors per bus.

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