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1 posted on 02/13/2006 8:50:52 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

If we can just get Microsoft to code a multithreaded Solitaire game, those cards would shuffle faster than ever!


2 posted on 02/13/2006 8:52:34 AM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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Earlier thread on AMD:

AMD: Quad-core in 2007

3 posted on 02/13/2006 8:52:44 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...

4 posted on 02/13/2006 8:55:34 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Another technology that will be a Mac first.


5 posted on 02/13/2006 8:56:49 AM PST by x5452
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Visteva

Pantherine

CoreClear

Symbervine

Silicamon

Incisorline

Hey, this is fun. Making up new and nonsensical names for emerging technology.

How about bad names for emerging political "technologies":

Hillankles

McCaincer

Williedrip

Pelosistretch

Boozeted

7 posted on 02/13/2006 9:03:26 AM PST by isthisnickcool (Jack Bauer: "By the time I'm finished with you you're going to wish you felt this good again".)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Will their quad-core that's optimized for playing MP3s be called "Funkytown"?


9 posted on 02/13/2006 9:09:38 AM PST by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Still trying to get by on one of these.

HEY Y'ALL! STOP TYPING SO FAST!

15 posted on 02/13/2006 11:06:20 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Sun is already shipping 8-core systems that do 4 "hardware threads" per core, making them capable of handling up to 32 threads conurrently. Memory bandwidth is about 20Gbytes/second.


18 posted on 02/13/2006 1:21:00 PM PST by ikka
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