Very little PC software is designed to take advantage of multiple cores and it's unclear what performance benefits a quad-core chip will offer over a dual-core chip
By Sumner Lemon, IDG News ServiceJuly 15, 2008
Intel will release its first quad-core processor for laptops next month, rounding out a broad update to its mobile computing platform. "We're bringing quad-core to mobile in August," said Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore. Kamran declined to disclose specifics of the quad-core chip, which will carry Intel's Core 2 Extreme moniker. Getting a quad-core processor into a laptop is more about bragging rights than a genuine boost in performance. Very little PC software is designed to take advantage of multiple cores and it's unclear what performance benefits a quad-core chip would offer over a dual-core chip, such as the 3.06GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9100.
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