Revision as of 22:43, 22 December 2005 edit Matt Britt (talk \| contribs) 5,922 edits mNo edit summary ← Previous edit		Revision as of 22:59, 22 December 2005 edit undo Matt Britt (talk \| contribs) 5,922 edits bah... that section sucked all around; there are plenty of prior examples of multiple core microprocessors Next edit →
Line 4: [[Image:Dual Core Generic.png\|thumb\|190px\|Conceptual diagram of a dual-core CPU, with CPU-local Level 1 caches, and shared, on-chip Level 2 caches.]] Multi-core microprocessors first became viable around the year 2000, as 180-[[nanometre\|nm]] [[CMOS]] processes became feasible for volume production. {{ref\|DSP}} At this gate size, multiple copies of large and complex CPU implementations could be incorporated onto a single production die. The first commercial example of a multi-core microelectronic CPU was [[IBM]]'s [[POWER4]], released in 2001. <!-- Need to check whether or not this is true --> ==Commercial examples== [[IBM\|International Business Machines (IBM)]]'s [[POWER4]], released in [[2000]]~~, was the first dual-core microprocessor on the market.~~ IBM's [[IBM POWER\|POWER5]] dual-core chip is now in production, and the company has a [[PowerPC 970\|PowerPC 970MP]] dual-core processor in production and is in use in the Apple PowerMac G5. * [[PA-RISC]] (PA-8800)

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