Michael D. Ober wrote:

"Martin 53N 1W" <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote in message

I doubt anything like that will get supported either. Intel's 'HT' is
likely a very short lived design 'workaround' for attempting to
balance out the bottlenecks in their P4 CPU architechture.

Dual core CPU designs date back to the 1970s with the IBM System 370.
This is a tried and true design for boosting performance without
increasing power consumption and heat generation.  Also, earlier this
year Intel scrapped further development of high performance single
core processors - they were starting to consume too much power and
generate too much waste heat.

For sure. It is my opinion that dual or multiple-core CPUs are the future of
desktop computing. With low power consumption cores such as the intel Banias
or Dothan (Pentium M) or AMDs mobile CPUs it would be possible to have up to
four discrete cores on the one die and still use less power than a 3.6Ghz
Prescot. Not to mention that a 2Ghz Pentium M (Dothan, 2MB L2 cache) is as
fast, if not faster, at most applications as a Prescot 3.6Ghz while using a
quarter of the power or less, having four of these on one die would be
awesome indeed. It would pump out WU's in under 20 minutes each running four
or eight instances of the client. 72 WUs a day + from one machine!

It would probably be good for other things too.
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~misfit~