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To: brushwud who wrote (221791)	12/30/2006 2:37:26 PM
From: cruzbay	Respond to of 275872

Brushwud: "I liked better the point that you made earlier" My main point was the futility of quad core and above for mainstream users. My "no obvious bullets waiting in the wings" referred to IPC and clock speed, which do seem to be leveling out. Architectural innovation along the lines of heterogeneous cores, accelerators, fast on die interconnects, and graphics does offer a path to higher performance, and one where AMD is taking the lead. To the extent that these can be managed via the proven road of instruction set extensions for single threaded applications, they can be quickly adopted. If they require rethinking and rewriting traditional (non-server) applications from a parallel perspective, they will face the same adoption barriers of high count homogeneous cores.