People are getting excited by AMD 12-core plans. Along with that new CPU, a new CPU socket named G34 will seem. Fair adequate, at some point one has to add more pins to transport more documents (hopefully faster). The downside is that you will have to get a new motherboard. 12 cores in two years seem fair - no surprises here. The question is: what’s going to use these cores? Certainly not the average application, considering they can’t take advantage of many-cores. Even games won’t fully use that parallelism: the really parallel stuff (physics, video compression) will go to GPUs, which

might have more than 1000 cores by soon after. I’m upgrading my PC and I would rather go with a high-frequency dual-core than a lower frequency quad-core. whether you own a quad-core PC, open the task manager, go to the “performance” tab and entertain yourself watching the cores not doing much. That is – unless you use a parallel app that won’t be GPU accelerated soon.

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