What advantage do mulitple cores give?

[Anonymous]

The new trend in multi cores on a processor is like what they used to do with increasing Ghz. First they came out with dual core, then they moved to core 2 duo. So if someone has a mother board which accepts 2 processors and both are core 2 duo processor which is 4 cores, does that mean that you open up 8 instances of Adobe Premiere, and each rendering occurs on its own core? Or does it mean that 1 instance of Premiere or other number crunching software will work not quite 8 times more efficiently? Or have hardware programmers not yet gotten around to implementing multicore functionality yet?

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[Anonymous]

I just made up random info about an 8 core system in my previous post. But I guess Intel is actually working on doing this weird thing. It was unveiled at CES behind closed doors and written about at PC Mag, dated January 8th 2007.

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It was super exciting for me when the pentium 3 chips came as dual processors with their blazing sub 1Ghz speeds.

I can’t even imagine what the possible applications are, for these multicore systems. Maybe predicting the weather will be easier with all these processors telling me to put on a rain coat or snow boots.

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