The future of netbooks 
Published: 24 Nov 2008 16:36 GMT
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Many-core chips
At first glance, putting teraflop chips in a £250 netbook is akin to shoving a Rolls Royce Trent jet engine on a pushbike — you'll live just long enough to die. But the basic equation behind multi-core chips — that you can get high performance out of a bunch of relatively slow CPUs more efficiently than one very fast, very hot single-core chip — works just as well if you want to get good-enough performance at very low power consumption. That's completely unexplored at the moment, but as software starts to get good at multi-core CPUs and chip-makers continue to up the core count, we'll see some interesting developments at the very low end of the client market.
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