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		Ennis on Dec 3, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel 48 core press release This is fantastic. I guess I agree that most people don't need the latest and greatest processor - just like a car. But the faster you can run a simulation or compile code the better. It's not always just about web browsing and games on a pc.

rbanffy on Dec 3, 2009 [–]

I am sure games will have a good use for that much cores...

As for browsing, may with 48 cores at their disposal, Adobe can finally speed up Flash on Linux...

Boom badoom tsss

seunosewa on Dec 3, 2009 | [–]

Flash applets can't be trivially parallelized.

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