The news reminds the latest assignment about the multi-core programming. Indeed, the bottleneck of getting a faster clock speed in processor has forced the programmers to change their way of coding. Though multi-core has solved the problem partly, there is still gap between the expectation and reality. 2 3-GHZ cores won't achieve the performance of a 6GHZ core. Hence if they can make the latter without the heat, cost and manufacturing problems, I guess they will prefer to produce the faster one.
Having read the news of the graphene transistor, I start wondering what will happen if chip makers just keep creating more cores instead of increasing the speed, isn't that kind of GPU? If this will be the truth for the following years, then a trend is that many current applications will need to be changed to a parallel style, in order to handle more and more transactions and workload. They cannot count on a faster processor, but only more cores to be working.
Maybe in the near future, if Graphene transistor is really used in commercial products, then it will be a real boost in the processor industry. Hope that won't be too far away from us.
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