Intel Pentium D 840 Dual-Core LGA775 Processor Review : Review

Quote: Apparently chafing under the invisible restrictions of Moore's law, Intel and AMD spent 2004 searching for ways of further improving processor designs that had virtually reached their maximum speeds under current manufacturing technologies. Both companies changed processor naming schemes and tinkered with cache sizes, while Intel flirted with changing the basic design of the Pentium 4 to mirror that of its highly successful Pentium M mobile CPU. AMD was apparently first to hit on a possible answer to the dilemma facing them. If one chip was good, two chips must be better! Multiple CPU machines have existed for years at the business level, and the performance advantages are well understood, so why not cram two cores into a single processor die and bring multiprocessing to the desktop?

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