Microprocessor engineers agree multi-core design is the wave of the future, but they differ widely on how to implement them and surmount the many challenges they pose based on a panel at the International Solid State Circuits Conference that gathered senior chip designers from Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Intel, Renesas, Sun Microsystems and startup Tilera.
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