What Can Quad Core Do?

摘要

Intel and AMD recently came out with quad-core semiconductor chips that pack the brains and processing power of four computers onto a single piece of silicon. According to the manufacturers, their new Xeon 7300 and Barcelona chips can handle much more work than can dual-core chips. The new chips are being packaged into servers from the major manufacturers (HP, Sun, IBM, Dell) that should be available in early 2008.rnWith Wall Street's insatiable demand for more compute cycles — to handle automated trading, process market data and perform simulations, for example — this is good news. "The particular benefit will be in accelerating trades, moving higher volumes of data faster, making faster decisions, and allowing more trading applications to access more memory and higher speeds," according to Rick Jacobsen, Intel's marketing director for the financial services sector.