Quote Originally Posted by =SOC= Admiral View Post
Dres can you explain how they have the module system set up now and with relation to cores and threads? Im a little confused on whether its still like what anand had a while back or if they changed the 1 module 2 cores idea.
As has been told us in November a module contains two integer cores and the components shared between them. In the patents these cores were named "cluster" and the module was the "core". Each integer core (cluster) can execute one program thread. So the whole module can execute two of them.

Such a module (maybe called so in relation to M-SPACE and their modular design philosophy) is the smallest compute unit to be used in processor designs.

However marketing wise it just might be harder to sell 4 cores (for 8 threads) at e.g. 3 GHz than to sell 8 cores (again for 8 threads). Even if one of the former type of cores would be more powerful than any other x86 core on the market by then.