Intel & AMD's six core cpu plans (w/ salt)

[Burn]

I think I spent about a quarter/third of my salary last year on computer upgrades lol...that's probably a little sad..

LOL... it's also sad how much I have spent... Stupid watercooling...

 

[Muffin Man]

Fudzilla

Phenom II X4 960T is the name

Delta Leonis is a star in the constellation of Leo and natives calls it Zosma. Some even calls it Zozma or Duhr. This science class is less important than the fact that AMD's next generation 45nm quad core is codenamed Zosma.

You can expect it as early as Q2 2010, probably the middle part of it, and it is set to launch together with three new Hexa cores. We have a strong reason to suspect that Phenom II X4 960T 95W TDP quad-core is a six-core with two cores disabled, but we cannot confirm this at press time.

We don't know any clock speeds but we can tell you that it is a 45nm SOI (what else) part, that it supports DDR3 1333 and fits in AM3 motherboards. We still wonder what T stands for but we are quite sure it's not Terrestrial. Thuban perhaps?

maybe that acc magic will work on these too. hexa for the price of a quad?

 

[james.wired]

AMD line worker 1: "Ah, here's another cherry, boss."
AMD Supervisor: "Throw that in the Hexa pile."
AMD line worker 2: "Here's another failed Hexa, boss."
Amd Supervisor: "Throw that in the 960T pile."

AMD CEO: "Two new models FTW!"

 

[CPierce]

Isnt there an article which shows that increasing cores is only useful for so long, performance isnt linear. Like i think 8 cores is the max before performance becomes negligible.

I've read its because its programmed in a linear fashion instead of a like a cloud...
Was reading about a 48 core chip yesturday from intel.