Author: Charles Worthington
Date: 21:31:52 04/10/03
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On April 11, 2003 at 00:09:23, Jay Urbanski wrote: > >> >> >>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? Not to mention the fact that they will soon reach a ceiling on how much speed they can get out of a single cpu and once that happens multiprocessing will no longer be a luxury...it will be a necessity.
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