Author: Jay Urbanski
Date: 21:09:23 04/10/03
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> > >It's simply wrong, or you have deliberately chosen to ignore all consumer >electronic devices and most PCs. > >I don't even know if the vast majority of processor produced in the world are 16 >bits or 32 bits ones. Maybe the majority is 8 bits processors. > Perhaps if you include all embedded processors in the world.. but even that's doubtful. But on the other hand I doubt your car or your refrigerator are going to be running a chess engine. SMP / SMT processing is definitely on the rise and you *will* see it become much more common on both the desktop and general purpose server machines. IBM's POWER4 is already SMP on a chip, Itanium will be soon, as will Opteron in a few years. Intel will follow suit on the desktop as they have with Hyperthreading already. It's a cheap way to get more processing power out of the available silicon - so why not?
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