Microsoft math: Multicore licensed as one chip
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Taking a stand on what has become a contentious issue, Microsoft on Tuesday said it will count new multicore processors as single units when they debut next year.
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SAN FRANCISCO Advanced Micro Devices has brought forward a demonstration of its version of a new approach to processor design, with a chip that is expected to offer faster computing and relatively less power consumption.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Intel Corp. has designed a computer chip that promises to perform calculations as quickly an entire data center -- while consuming as much energy as a light bulb.
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Opinion: The company&#39;s decision to keep per-processor licensing for upcoming multicore technology is a win for customers, but of more immediate licensing concern are grid, partitioning and utility computing.
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A new experimental chip from Intel could house as many as 80 separate processing engines, or cores.
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Analysis: Dual- and quad-core systems add power, but customers wonder whether the they're worth the cost.
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Peter Glaskowsky analyzes the potential benefits of AMD's new quad-core Opteron processors for data centers.
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The Motley Fool - For all the fuss over quad-core chips, you'd think your own PC had them now. Of course, they don't, and they won't. Quad-core chips -- that is, four processors on one piece of silicon -- are aimed at servers.
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With the expected arrival of dual-core processors from both Intel and AMD next year, Microsoft faced a licensing dilemma -- do right by customers by charging for only the physical processors
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InfoWorld - Following their march from standard processors to dual-core and quad-core designs in 2006, Intel researchers have built an 80-core chip that performs more than a teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) while using less electricity than a modern desktop PC chip.
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Microsoft announced that it will continue its per-processor licensing model with the introduction of dual-core and multicore processors.
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A chip capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) is unveiled by Intel.
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Massively parallel processor to 'change the world', apparently
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Ziff Davis - The company says it will offer the same per-processir software licensing model for hardware containing dual-core and multicore technology.
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At a meeting of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in Santa Clara later this afternoon, engineers from Intel are slated to demonstrate a working version of a conceptual CPU. As promised during the last Intel Developers' Forum, this concept CPU will incorporate 80 cores using an experimental "network-on-a-chip" architecture.
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It said it has demonstrated a working version of the technology based on its Opteron chip. By Darrell Dunn. The shift to dual-core microprocessors continues to accelerate.
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Intel has confirmed that in future all its chips will be multicore and has revealed additional desktop, server and mobile processor plans.