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Title: What is a multicore processor? What are its advantages compared withmultiple-processor architecture? ... Post by: mjhgfd on Jan 30, 2018 What is a multicore processor? What are its advantages compared withmultiple-processor architecture? Why have multicore processors been used only since the mid-2000s?
Title: What is a multicore processor? What are its advantages compared withmultiple-processor architecture? ... Post by: dgonzalez228 on Jan 30, 2018 A multicore processor is a single microchip containing two or more fully functional CPUs.The main advantage of multicore architecture compared with multi-CPU architecture with CPUs of equivalent number and power is more efficient inter-CPU communication, which increases total computational power when multiple CPUs cooperate on the same task.Multicore processors didn't become available until the mid-2000sbecause that's when the capabilities of modernsemiconductor manufacturing methods evolved to the point thatenough transistors couldbe placed on a single chip to implement multiple CPUs and their memory caches.
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