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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (166238)	7/19/2005 1:48:58 PM
From: Rink	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Elmer, AMD is contemplating how to use the transistors that become available with every new chip manufacturing process generation. It has at separate occasions discussed the possibility to go quad core, and then octal(?) core. It has mentioned another possibility as well, namely asymmetric cores, meaning e.g. a combination of a couple of k8 cores with e.g. a single additional floating point core (this specific example was mentioned by AMD as a possibility they're looking into). Now Intel might be considering the same as a possibility to use additional transistors becoming available with new process generations (e.g. 45nm). My question is if they would consider something like that what combination of cores do you think makes sense for the current x86 space. I'll mention a couple cores they have now without going into a combination: CPU core as used in Montvale (Itanium) CPU core as used in Merom (Pentium M) New floating point unit (as AMD mentioned as a possibility) Regards, Rink