{"id":8630,"date":"2006-11-14T19:09:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8630"},"modified":"2006-11-14T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"intel-launch-quad-core-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8630","title":{"rendered":"Intel Launch Quad Core Processors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, CPU manufacturers reached the limits of known physics by making CPU&#8217;s faster and faster.\u00a0 They couldn&#8217;t scale up any more so it was time to scale out.\u00a0 The result of hitting this wall was to add an extra core to the CPU, giving us dual core processors that have been shipping in PC&#8217;s and servers for a while now.\u00a0 Today, Intel launched their first quad core CPU.\u00a0 That&#8217;s basically 4 processing engines in one CPU.\u00a0 Intel has posted loads on information on this new technology on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/quadcoreserver\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A quad core will appear to your operating system as 4 CPU&#8217;s.\u00a0 Microsoft don&#8217;t license per core so that won&#8217;t be a problem.\u00a0 Where you will have licensing issues is where vendors license per core.\u00a0 I&#8217;m fairly sure IBM do this with Lotus Domino &#8230; but hey &#8230; Notes Sucks!<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t claim to be a CPU guru.\u00a0 Where I see this CPU really being useful is in systems where number crunching is vital, e.g. VM hypervisors, hefty simultation systems, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, CPU manufacturers reached the limits of known physics by making CPU&#8217;s faster and faster.\u00a0 They couldn&#8217;t scale up any more so it was time to scale out.\u00a0 The result of hitting this wall was to add an extra core to the CPU, giving us dual core processors that have been shipping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8630\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intel Launch Quad Core Processors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}