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When will Quad cores be the main CPU's

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imported_grinder

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Quad cores have been out for a long time, Intel and AMD both seem to be putting most of there time into core that have more than 2 cpu's.

Yet not may programs really take advantage of more than 2 core's.

That being said why so much time spent developing them if there is not much call for them.
 
What intel needs is a very cheap Quad core(like $110). Remember the transition to Dual core, and remember when the Pentium D 805 came out for $133? That was undheard of for a dual core processor under $200.

Same thing needs to happen with the Quads.
 
yea its just price competition. most main cpus are mid/low end. no reason to lose profit margin on quads by getting rid of dual core until amd gets its act together and comes back with something competitive.
 
Originally posted by: lurkmoar
Originally posted by: ther00kie16
You are thinking as a gamer. Many professional applications utilize quad core.
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app names plox
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Anything that requires massive amounts of calculations will take advantage of quad core and beyond. I agree that it's about the price. Once quad cores can hit close to $100 area, then they will become the norm. Who knows? Maybe q9150 for $100 will work great and be the norm in terms of PCs from OEMs.
 
Someone has to figure out a way to get software to actually use the cores... right now, a few 'professional' (read: very small market share) and 'enterprise' (read: big market share, but not usually visible) applications are (almost) the only applications that can leverage four threads. Some games are getting there -- especially in AI and pathfinding. More applications, especially games, will have to adapt to thread-level parallelism to reap any benefits from quad-core+ platforms.

Edit: I shouldn't say 'not usually visible' -- more like 'not always remembered'.
 
Originally posted by: degibson
Someone has to figure out a way to get software to actually use the cores... right now, a few 'professional' (read: very small market share) and 'enterprise' (read: big market share, but not usually visible) applications are (almost) the only applications that can leverage four threads. Some games are getting there -- especially in AI and pathfinding. More applications, especially games, will have to adapt to thread-level parallelism to reap any benefits from quad-core+ platforms.

Edit: I shouldn't say 'not usually visible' -- more like 'not always remembered'.
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well during the last apple event, Steve jobs mentioned something called grand Central. while he didn't go into details, it appears to be a compiler that optimizes applications for multi-core. now this is quite early, but if it is successful and can be used on other OS'es, then that will be revolutionary and it will make writing multi-threaded apps much easier.

disclaimer: take everything i said with a grain of salt. this is what i understood from some articles i read on the net and again, details were skim.
 
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