Are multicore processors here to stay?

January 1, 2006, 12:00am PST | Length: 00:07:48
Intel director James Reinders looks at the power, memory, and instruction-level parallelism walls that are forcing the move to multicore processors, and explains why sometimes it makes sense to underclock, not overclock.
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