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Forgot your password?  Intel's Dual-core strategy, 75% by end
2006 306  Posted by CmdrTaco from the thats-a-lotta-core-ap
dept. DigitumDei writes "Intel is moving ahead rapidly with
their dual core chips, anticipating 75% of their chip sales to
be dual core chips by the end of 2006. With AMD also starting to
push their dual core solutions, how long until applications make
full use of this. Some applications already make good use of
multiple cpu's and of course multiple applications running at
the same time instantly benifit. Yet the most cpu intensive
applications for the average home machine, games, still mostly
do not take advantage of this. When game manufacturers start to
release games designed to take advantage of this, are we going
to see a huge increase in game complexity/detail or is this
benifit going to be less than Intel and AMD would have you
believe?"  Intel's Dual-core strategy, 75% by end 2006  Comments
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