Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:16:12 02/26/99
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It's currently the cheapest way to get extra horsepower. Consider the cost of a 6 or 8 cpu box verses a single CPU with the same throughput (if you could even find one). I suspect that as masks shrink to some level they will have difficulty shrinking them further. After you get to gamma rays, you will be hard put to find something with a shorter wavelength than that. Certainly it would be a tough task to make traces smaller than an atom. So at some point for sure the way to more power will be more chips. Quite likely they will put them on a single chip. So (for instance) you might get 16 K7 equivalents on a single chip, with an additional CPU of some sort deciding how to assign the pipeline. I think multiple CPU's will be the wave of the future. In fact, the wave is already here. Go price a 2CPU machine. They're not expensive. Even one with 4 pentium pros will not break the bank. If you have a fat wallet, you can get 8 chips and really fly.
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