11:25 - 12:10   Paper 2

Intel Multi-core Architechtures

Mark Green, Intel TME

By the end of 2006, most of the processors Intel ships will be Multi-Core (Dual-Core initially).  Future generations will increase this percentage and see us move to more cores per chip.  Moore's law is not slowing down, and Intel is embracing multi-core.  Single threaded apps will see improvement as Intel improves the microarchitechtures and boosts frequencies, but not as fast as if the app. is rearchitechtured for multi-core.  This session investigates Intel's Multi-Core Architechtures, firstly focussed on Dual Core implementations.