On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 02:42:06AM -0400, Michael Lawnick wrote: > Hi, > > Guenter Roeck said the following: > > Search for "Intel, AMD to Continue Raising Chip Core Count". > > Intel talks about up to 10 cores per chip, AMD aboud up to 16. > > Current limit is 8 cores for Intel, and 12 for AMD. > > > > To be halfway safe, 16 should be good enough for the next couple of years. > > > > I'm not really sure, but is your discussion INTEL/AMD only? > If not, sorry to disturb your ideal world, but currently there is a MIPS > based eval board on my desk with 16 cores. It is typically used in > networks. > So you are already at the limit with your proposal. > On my side, since we were talking about the coretemp driver, it was Intel specific. Tilera has chips with 64 cores today, and is going for 100. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
