Why You’re Not Getting Your Money’s Worth Out of That New CPU

by Marshall Brain

Wired looks at the trend toward multi-core CPUs and the effect that it will have to have on software:

Why You’re Not Getting Your Money’s Worth Out of That New CPU

A dual-core CPU doesn’t really suffer from this problem so much, but any processor with more than two cores will. It’s interesting - it means that, if multicore CPUs are really going to do us any good, programmers will have to start working a lot harder when they create software.

For more information see: How Microprocessors work.

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