  New Phenom triple-core processor coming in 2008
Comments     Threshold   What market segment is this aimed at?
By jak3676 on 9/17/2007 11:22:55 PM , Rating: 4 This seems to be
a really odd marketing move.  Performance wise, there is still
limited use for mainstream multi-core CPU's. We are starting to
see some good mult-threaded apps, but its still a minority of
support. Just about everyone will see a boost in moving to a
dual core CPU, as this allows one core to focus on a single main
thead (games, video editing, etc) while the other core handles
all the background tasks, but many users may not even notice the
difference from a single vs dual-core CPU. For this mainstream
market there is little use for any more than 2 cores.  For the
performance crowd (and I think there are a growing number of
us), the tri-core system (gee that sounds like a Zelda
reference) will probably not gain any huge following unless AMD
prices them signifigantly cheaper than the quad-core CPU's. It
will cost AMD the same am