i havent done much digging in the transistor count but from people i have talked to in regards to the i7s the i7s are true quad cores im not sure what that means for the core 2 quads that came before the i7.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > normally according to moores law new technology is released every 18 >> months. >> > > no: it observes that _transistor_count_ (at efficient cost) > doubles every _2_years_. the wikipedia page is very good. > however, ML largely ignores the fact the various measures that display > exponential improvement are areal processes, > which actually move in jumps. and not all the jumps are or have been as > easy. > > right now there are the i7's which have just been released. >> > > i7 is a pretty big discontinuity in intel's design. it'll be interesting > to see how smoothly they make it. but don't the first i7's actually > have _lower_ transistor count than current core2's? > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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