2007-11-07 08:53:47 · 3 answers · asked by juanmoreno92 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I believe it is more of manufacturing costs issues. The current quads are just made of 2 dual core dies that are in abundant production.
2007-11-07 10:09:33 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I imagine it is easier to just double things up and they'll probably follow along like memory (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc.)
There's not much use for a quad-core system at the moment, as no software supports it yet and only a handful support dual-core. It's all for show right now.
2007-11-07 09:00:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
AMD will make a 3 core soon. It will be the quad code with one core disabled. These are likely to be chips that have a manufacturing defect in one of the cores, but leaves the other 3 working.
As for skipping 3 cores, its just easier to double them as far as physical layout.
2007-11-07 09:02:55 · answer #3 · answered by Neebler 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋