Nehalem doesn't have 8 cores. It is a super quad core.

This post has been edited by charge-n-go: Aug 23 2007, 07:55 AM

Single core.Then dual cores.Then quad cores.Now octal cores?Whoa!OMG OMFG!Holy shiet!

You're shocked seeing 8 core eh, how about 64 cores? http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8532

Not even comparable. These cores are tiny, weak, and not even x86.

It is risc processors , it can run linux for sure, since it cost less and could do more, should be good enough for server like data center:)

Do more? It doesn't even have FP capability. It's only suitable for embedded systems, not general purpose work.

These days the marketing ppl has successfully use "More cores = better" slogan, just like the oldern days where higher MHz = better performance.

Nah, it doesnt work this way at all. We must evaluate and estimate performance based on the architecture itself, not based on core/threads/clockspeed alone.

Are we talking about this? as the first guy that first posted about it here got blasted for hyping it too much XD

well i m not surprised if got 16 cores

it will be no use as (old saying again) Windows Vista isn't optimized or even designed for core numbers greater than 4.