In first half 2008 , AMD company will release the tricore processors under the code name toliman, which relate to phenom generation . As is known, they will be obtained from four core processors (one core will be switched off - supposedly, defective ).
Games developers as a whole favorably evaluate the optimization of their products under tricore processors. However, they recognize that the number of core is not critical, but the optimization of game code under multicore processors is more important.
Intel Vice Presidents , Patrick Gelsinger and Stephen Smith, explained the attitude of company top managers to the idea of tricore processor creation . They reported that the release of tricore processor would be beneficial only from the side of crystals realization with defects region . As Mr. Smith explained, Intel do not have crystals release problems so there is no sense to release tricore processor .
Possibly, this is not urgent at the given moment, since Intel makes its four core processors from the association of dual core crystals. When it will presented four core processor nehalem with monolithic crystal, expensive from the prime cost production side, Intel can change its relation to the tricore processors.