Core Microarchitecture (last part)
Scalability
It is well known that processors of the Core microarchitecture are energy efficient and high performing. However, a third feature that is often overlooked is that Core is supposed to be scalable as well. It is “low power, high-performing, and scaleable“.
Basically this means that’s there’s lots of headroom for performance improvement.
It is to be a foundation for more to come, not just the present generation of processors.
Core is optimized for multicore. Dual-core is just the beginning. After that shall come quad-core computers. With any luck, the Core microarchitecture will scale well to quad-core and beyond.