Chris Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Just as the bragging rights for dual-core chip supremacy are dying down, Intel gave the first glimpse of a quad-core chip coming next year. Clovertown, a four-core processor, will start shipping to computer manufacturers late this year and hit the market in early 2007. Clovertown will be made for dual-processor servers, which means that these servers will essentially be eight-processor servers (two processors x four cores each). The company will also come out with a previously announced version called Tigerton around the same time for servers with four or more processors. Core expansion will be a dominant theme for Intel over the next few years, said Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner. By the end of the decade, chips with tens of cores will be possible, while in 10 years, it's theoretically possible that chips with hundreds of cores will come out, he added. Rattner showed off a computer running two Clovertown processors.More | Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 I wonder if Vista will support quad cores?The article link is referring to servers!I expect it will eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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