Prompted by a Softtalkblog post Nov. 29, 2011 --- shopping for PC cores.
Dear Softtalk, Re: The economics of core buying, or rational compute power buying. Most of the total available market, let's say 6B people, seem to only need SMS/vioce/web/video one/two core, i.e. cell/smart phone/pad/tablet; backed by powerful computer/switch communication infrastructure, and web farms --- 10's of thousands, 100's of thousands? millions? of multi-core boxes, maybe moving to "simple" multi-core ARMs, sans Flt Pt units & Graphics. Office workers with traditional desktop PC's and SW seems to be a mature market -- maybe 500M units? 1B? Home hybrid WebTV? Home Game market?
Adobe/AutoCad/Avid/etc. content creation SW machines ... insatiable core appetite? 1M units with 1M cores per unit? Sort of like HPC SciViz etc. All of the above is prolog to asking about Knights Corner.
Re: Econ of PC and KC purchase? If one has a (perceived) need for more performance, sort of like game hot rods, what is the point at which KC makes sense? If the KC's cores are very like PC's, might I buy a cheap base Dual core PC (if I can find one) and super charge it with an add-in Knights Corner (SCC) card? What will be the cross over price point? $5K Workstation? Will I be able to buy a $200 add-in KC @Fry's to add nitro power boost to my old PC? Will Adobe bundle KC with AE?
Just asking.
Art Scott
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