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WTF? "communicate through the BIOS"???? on
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Posted 09/19/2007 at 07:47:01am

WTF? "communicate through the BIOS"???? What are you talking about??? That made no sense. No, AMD's cores are directly interconnected via a switching transistor gate type mechanism (I forgot what they call it) inside the die. Intel's cores (as far as I know) still communicate with each other over the much slower FSB (front-side bus) - kinda horrid if you ask me. And my thoughts are, integrated graphics onto the same die as a CPU MIGHT be good if not best BUT then there is the BIG problem of how to upgrade which part of the CPU die. You CANNOT just "unsocket" something to upgrade it, if they choose to go that design route on a die. -- ProphetPX

nobody has ever done tri-core before? on
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Posted 09/18/2007 at 04:11:05pm

not true. The Microsoft XBOX 360 gaming console comes in a default (stock) TRI-CORE IBM PowerPC CPU configuration. I'd bet there were more before this of course but that was the last one I read about. -- ProphetPX

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