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A comment on Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more cores?.

Re:Ask HN: Why are modern Intel CPUs not getting a lot more ... by brudgers on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @10:58AM (#12305176)
If the desktop has four cores now, then it has double the cores of a few years ago when two was standard and that was double the number of cores 'anyone' had ten years ago: desktop Conroe chips started shipping in 2007. Which means the number of cores has quadrupled in less than ten years.
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