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Think Parallel 2010, Five Years of Multicore

The first multicore x86 processors arrived nearly 5 years ago. Hyper-threading had existed for a number of years before, but we'll probably never acknowledge completely how important that was for getting key changes in licensing and programming... because it doesn't look like it changed much... but it did. I can't imagine how much harder multicore processors would have been without the five years of hyperthreading in the market. How much has changed in 5 years of multicore processors? A lot, but it is just a start.

March 15, 2010
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