Google sends multicore warning: wimpy cores don’t cut it
Updated: 2010-09-29 16:37:40
Google’s senior vice president of operations has written a short but powerful paper for IEEE Micro, in which he advises companies to exercise caution before deploying too many “wimpy cores”. While Urs Hoelzle says Google is enthusiastic about supporting multicore systems, he adds there can be drawbacks to using wimpy-core systems, which are those where the single core performance [...]