MULTICORE PROCESSORS Another way to reduce power consumption and Hardware sprawl is to use Multicore Processors.
MULTICORE PROCESSOR
Multicore Processor is an integrated circuit that contains two or more processors.
• In the past, chip makers increased the Processors Speed by increasing their frequency from a few Megahertz to today’s Gigahertz frequencies.
• This strategy increased both the Heat and Power consumption to the point where high Gigahertz chip require water cooling. Dual-Core Processors combine two or more slower Processors in a single chip that enables two Processor engines with reduced power requirements and heath dissipation to perform tasks faster than a resource-hungry chip with a single processing core.