What possible desktop operating system will really make use of 16 cores? You think Windows 8 is going to make use of 16 cores? Not in any meaningful way.
This is AMD's way of saying that Moore's Law has finally run out of gas.
NOT using Windows here.
> What possible desktop operating system will really make use of 16 cores? You think Windows 8 is going to make use of 16 cores? Not in any meaningful way.
You could easily do it with Ada using the ‘Task’ construct so that each portion (and even subportions thereof), the main reason you aren’t going to be getting full use of multi-core/multi-processor is because [most] applications, including OSes, really haven’t been designed for it.