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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Mark Hahn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hahn@mcmaster.ca">hahn@mcmaster.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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normally according to moores law new technology is released every 18 months.<br>
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no: it observes that _transistor_count_ (at efficient cost)<br>
doubles every _2_years_. the wikipedia page is very good.<br>
however, ML largely ignores the fact the various measures that display exponential improvement are areal processes,<br>
which actually move in jumps. and not all the jumps are or have been as easy.<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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right now there are the i7's which have just been released.<br>
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i7 is a pretty big discontinuity in intel's design. it'll be interesting<br>
to see how smoothly they make it. but don't the first i7's actually<br>
have _lower_ transistor count than current core2's?<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jonathan Aquilina<br>
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