Monday, September 17, 2007

REFLECTION QUESTION #6

Q: Summary of what you read.

A: AMD announced that they will sell the first Tri-Core Processor. They said that they will be breaking into a market into which Intel cannot follow with its current architecture. The benefit of Tri-Core is that being able to hit higher clock speeds because of the removed heat from the disabled or missing core. Also the benefit of being a reasonable price between dual and quad-core. They said that three core makes more sense because two cores can be set to work on the dual-core optimised program, while the third runs all the other background software and operating system out of the way of the main task. They think that this will be a great option for gamers as long as the price is right.

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