From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

...but imagine how cool the performance tab of yer olde task manager will
look ! 


Antti Kurenniemi
(I'd pay 42.000 smackaroos for Vista to get that, sure)

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:4519ae35{at}w3.nls.net...
> Some bean counter at Microsoft will probably decide to change their
> licensing from per processor to per core by that time   
>
>
> "Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote
> in message news:45199d23{at}w3.nls.net...
>> 80????
>>
>> 80?
>>
>>
http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6119618.html?part=rss&tag=6119618&subj=news
>>
>> Exsqueese me while I do some nuclear physics.....
>>
>> "CEO Paul Otellini held up a silicon wafer with the prototype chips
>> before several thousand attendees at the Intel Developer Forum here
>> Tuesday. The chips are capable of exchanging data at a terabyte a
>> second, Otellini said during a keynote speech. The company hopes to have
>> these chips ready for commercial production within a five-year window."
>>
>> "Intel's prototype uses 80 floating-point cores, each running at
>> 3.16GHz, said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, in a
>> speech following Otellini's address. In order to move data in between
>> individual cores and into memory, the company plans to use an on-chip
>> interconnect fabric and stacked SRAM (static RAM) chips attached
>> directly to the bottom of the chip, he said."
>>
>> Blimey looks like MS have told Intel about the min spec for Vista
>> 2010.... 
>>
>> Adam
>
>

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