Chilligavva

No no this is not a title for a new Schwarzenegger movie, but an interesting trend coming up in the software industry. Im talking about the Larabee project from Intel. The possibilities are endless, so to speak.

To keep up with the demands of the increasingly digital world, the
“multi-core” or “many core” approach is necessary because by 2015,
running chips at faster and faster frequencies could have yielded
products like laptop or desktop computers that create as much heat as a
nuclear reactor, engineers said.
- from the Washinton Post

With the current influx of dual core chips, I could see a windows parallel in action on our macbook (thanks to geeky hubby who installed all that).

The first thing that struck me about the multi core chips was that I could run 3 OSs atleast on the same system without having to reboot.. yeah.. Of course, Im fully relying on the dependable OSX and Linux guys to come up with the software for the same.

No No Im not a racist etc. but have you really used a windows system? Its awful.. And I had to LOL when I read this nugget

The drawback of the new approach is that it requires an equally dramatic shift in the software industry. Some experts, such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates, initially expressed reservations because of the disruptive nature of the transition.

Of course Gates would be worried. Microsoft has to actually do a lil more than copy paste old code. They have to think, and actually write efficient code.

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