Multicore chips pose next big hurdle
Posted by Technica on 22 March, 2009
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Adding more processing cores has emerged as the primary way of boosting performance of server and PC chips, but the benefits will be greatly diminished if the industry can’t overcome certain hardware and programming challenges, participants at the Multicore Expo in Santa Clara, California, said this week.
Most software today is still written for single-core chips [...]
