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Old 05-02-2008, 06:54 PM
Golden_Eagle_FM Golden_Eagle_FM is offline
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Originally Posted by Xiola View Post
Surely there is a size limit here, 4 cores is already close to filling a normal size CPU, so 10 cores will mean that the size of the CPU as a whloe will need to grow.

As we have already hit limits with electron migration, then the size of the core caanot go much smaller than it already is with the limits as we know them. The paths are already so small as to have individual electrons escaping and causing errors.

Wouldnt a 80 core CPU be massive? (with the limits as we now know them?)

Xiola here are some links that could be of interest on the topic:

http://www.news.com/Intel-shows-off-...3-6158181.html

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,12...l/article.html

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6158181.html

http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/a...s/eng/3724.htm

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