a multicore strategy of Intel

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Intel has realigned its strategy and moved resources away from pur GHz-oriented projectsp-the result is the company embracing multi-core architecture.

 

whereas Hyper-Threading Technology is limited to a single core's using existing execution resources more efficiently to better enable threading, multi-core capability provides two or more completes of execution resources to increase compute throughput.

 

In a 2002 Harris Interactive survey sponsored by Inte, 76 percent of computer user said they multitask at least occansionally or frequently on the PC, and nine out of 10 users reported that they've experienced problems while trying to perform multiple processor-intensive tasks on a PC. Problems include compuer freezes, time lags, function shutdowns, choppy screens and audio distortion. Nearly 60 percent of survey respondents said they feel bored when a computer function makes them wait, so they do something else on the computer at the same time.

 

Today, multiple groups at Intel are coming together to drive the multi-core initialive forward. Foremost among them is the Intel Software and Solutions Group(SSG), a large worldwide organization that works with third-party software developers and solution developers to help their designs get the full performance benefit of Intel architectures and ultimately deliver great value to end users.

 

SSG also offers a robust set of threading tools, compilers and other perforamnce-tuning tool kits and white papers that help enable software developers to implement thread-level parallelism enhancements within their code.