Will this ever happen? Or would it hurt the sale of Core i5's too much (profit motive)? Seems that going forward dual-cores will be less and less relevant and maybe even obsolete in a few years with the way things are going.
I remember AMD briefly had some triple cores some years back, I wonder how a triple-core Intel chip would shake up the "market". I think it's possible, but unlikely because once again, profit motive.
Of course, one of the reasons we keep getting these small 5%-10% incremental boosts in performance from Intel is because they haven't really had much competition from AMD lately on the cpu front. Maybe that's also a reason we still have mostly Intel dual-cores (pentium / core i3) as the "main" choices in the < $180 market.
I remember AMD briefly had some triple cores some years back, I wonder how a triple-core Intel chip would shake up the "market". I think it's possible, but unlikely because once again, profit motive.
Of course, one of the reasons we keep getting these small 5%-10% incremental boosts in performance from Intel is because they haven't really had much competition from AMD lately on the cpu front. Maybe that's also a reason we still have mostly Intel dual-cores (pentium / core i3) as the "main" choices in the < $180 market.
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