Power 7 CPU - 8 cores

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I'm leaning towards agreeing with psxphill in that you need to broaden your pool of knowledge--that one guy might talk a good talk but I think it's a minority opinion that he has.

FYI, when I started to work at my current place there were people (including university professors) claiming we would never need submicron technology as it would be too expensive and would never be needed. At the time MACs still contained Motorola processors and hardly could multitask.
Currently we are at 20nm node or more than 10 nodes further and still scaling ...

greets,
Staf.

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I suppose I need context for that.  If it's a current university professor expousing such things, yeah, I don't see how he could still believe that in the present day.

If it were university from 10+ years ago, ok, maybe I buy that he wasn't in a minority opinion at the time.

It was how people thought 10+ ago and the professor was certainly not alone in that line of thinking. The professor is retired now and I attended a lecture from him some months ago. He is now predicting a stop for the scaling around the 7nm. Making transistors that are smaller is claimed to be too difficult from physics point of view and chips should be able to do all we want from them...
My personal opinion is that as long that a chip can't run a game with
a) real-time movie quality graphics
b) opponents with human level intelligence
c) do that continuously for let's say one week when running of a battery
we will keep on scaling.

greets,
Staf.