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To: Joe NYC who wrote (213686)	10/16/2006 11:05:35 AM
From: DRBES	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

INQ AMD/intel essay: theinquirer.net

To: Joe NYC who wrote (213686)	10/16/2006 11:24:55 AM
From: fastpathguru	Respond to of 275872

I may be completely wrong, but quad core CPU will be a plateau as far as number of CPUs (except the servers), so one are where surplus transistors went will not need much. OTOH, GPUs are insatiable as far as the transistors are concerned, so the race pack more transistors on a die will continue... I agree... 4 cores is enough "GP" logic for a while, and performance gains will increasingly come via adding "stream computing" resources, on the CPU die itself but also in bulk via standalone SC chips connected via HTT. Applications that can scale beyond 4 cores effectively are probably going to map very well to the stream computing paradigm. fpg