Netyaroze on 14 April 2012
| Viper1 said: IBM's Power A2 is a 16 core chip. It's actually pretty small and low wattage. It's not a beast of a CPU like you'd think given the number of cores. |
It could be the A2 but it makes no sense. The problem with so many cores is the programming. And you cant infinetly parallelize every task. So 16 weak cores are actually suckier to programm then 4 strong ones. And have no benefits I can think of.
If MS really wants 16 cores its possible that its going to be strong cores because if its weak ones they would be better of with 4 Core CPUs
But I think its an 8 core Power 7 with HT if the rumor is true. That would be like 16 current 360 cores with 2 Threads each.
