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So I saw a chip that had 4o000 cores, just to prove it could be done...any dea when an 8 core chip will come out?

i have no idea what your talking about?

There's no 8-core chip commercially available at present, and such a processor would not be good value for most people. But you could always buy an Intel Skulltrail, which supports two quad core CPUs, which gives you a total of 8 CPU cores.

The main application for multiple cores in my everyday use is audio/video transcoding, and for that, that purpose is better served by my GPU. From today, all NVIDIA graphics cards from the 8-series and up can transcode video, at far faster speeds than when it is done via the CPU.

The problem with MC processors is that the more cores you add to a given system, the more you will have to deal with processor redundancy. That being said, I believe that both Intel and AMD are working on 8 Core CPU's currently. --I believe that we have pretty much reached the physical limits of CPU speeds.

Thats ok. A hardware pause will force programmers to sharpen up.

There is a 6 core intel for servers.

64 core processors rock

Well, earlier software, particularly games were created in a time when ram, CPU and disk space were at a premium. So the authors wrote very efficient code. A good example is doom. You could get the basic game and first level as a demo on a 1.44 meg floppy.

They wrote it in C and then went back and reworked most of the functions in assembler. It was smaller and ran faster. Assembler side optimizations are getting increasingly rare.

Another good example is the launch software for the shuttle. I was told its about 1 meg in size. How big would a modern game that simulates a launch terminal be?

What was his purpose in buying it? It may well be that He'll never use anything that would benefit from 64 bit applications, such as most of MS office.

I wonder if I can get each core to do a different os

Perhaps your friend was worried about driver support for the 64-bit version of Vista, which isn't as good as the 32-bit version. Not much fun using a 64-bit system and OS if you find you can no longer use your printers/scanners/routers etc. There also aren't many programs optimised for 64-bit systems, so the gains for your friend may not really be worth it to him.