Ivy Bridge and Haswell - The More Cores, Not The Merrier?
@ 2008/08/19Intel announces 22nm processors, but it seems like their answer to "too much" is more. We have a few more Intel code names to toss into the pile. Their 22nm processors are supposed to be called Ivy Bridge and Haswell.
That's nice, but outside of broadening SSE to 256-bit, a few other tweaks and a little more cache, all you say about these chips is More Cores. Great. We can't use four cores now, so let's add more!!
Seriously, why does Grandma need six or eight cores? Why does Granddaughter need six or eight cores? I hear some of the justifications being spewed out for this, and I try to see a corporate world where word processing is out, video processing is in. And if I try really, really hard for a while, I can actually get some blurry glimpses of something like that, a dozen years from now. Not now, not soon.
That's nice, but outside of broadening SSE to 256-bit, a few other tweaks and a little more cache, all you say about these chips is More Cores. Great. We can't use four cores now, so let's add more!!
Seriously, why does Grandma need six or eight cores? Why does Granddaughter need six or eight cores? I hear some of the justifications being spewed out for this, and I try to see a corporate world where word processing is out, video processing is in. And if I try really, really hard for a while, I can actually get some blurry glimpses of something like that, a dozen years from now. Not now, not soon.