8-12 cores

within 2 years i bet, i dont see the point in that many cores other than in a server. i dont see why intel/amd dont push for speed again.
 
they dont push for speed because its a bit of a wall. Intel will continue to make their tick-tock kind of manufacturing, its working very well so far. tick-tock is where intel releases say a 65nm processor, then next year they revise it with new 65nm processors. this is the tick, then the tock. now we hit the tick with the 45nm cores, and the tock is the i7's.

this is working well enough, why are people constantly asking why we're not pushing for speed any more? i dont care how fast you get it going, a P4 will never ever beat a dual core.
 
id guess you will see 6-8 core cpu’s end this year but then with the economy the way it is and most thing get delayed but at least by next year your certainly see server cpu's with 6-8 core you can get an computer with 8 now with skull trail but that uses 2 quad core cpu's your much better with a corei7.
 
I hope they start pushing the processing power of the cores inside the processor rather than going for more cores. Quad-Cores are more than sufficient for the regular end user.

Thank goodness Single-Core processors are technology of the past. I noticed a tremendous difference in processing power when I upgraded from a Single-Core to a Dual-Core processor.
 
the new processors are significantly faster as a single CPU then the old P4's.

speed is being increased, but in other ways.
 
you won't ever see them as a consumer for a good while probably 3-4 years, i think intel is coming out with a server class processor with 8 cores witin the next two years, if you want eight cores(real), you would have to resort to something along the line of the asus z7s, or intel skulltrail motherboard, and a pair of lga 771 processors
 
dailytech said:
Intel is reporting at least a 22 percent performance increase clock for clock over their 45nm process, and there are still many steppings to go before they go to market. Westmere also has seven new instructions, designed for accelerating encryption and decryption algorithms.
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If correct, drool :)
 
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