by Gaston Hillar
“Whilst designing and developing applications targeting netbooks and MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices), one of the great questions is whether there is a real possibility of scaling to more cores in the near future. There’s no need to think about the future. The Intel Atom family is already offering a dual-core microprocessor with Hyper-Threading, two physical cores and four hardware threads.
I’ve already talked about downsizing multicore programming skills to take advantage of Intel Atom. After this post, I’ve received many questions asking about the potential scalability offered by the Intel Atom Family. I’m answering all the questions with this post. It is very important to create applications capable of scaling when more cores are available because there’s already a dual-core Atom chip in the market. Furthermore, more cores could appear in the near future as the manufacturing processes improve.”
