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Also, Parallax has just open-sourced theirs!

http://www.parallax.com/microcontrollers/propeller-1-open-so...

8-core microcontroller in 2006, not bad. They're releasing a better one later this year, so they've opened the verilog design for the current one.

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This is awesome, but off topic. Give me a few days to refresh my Verilog, and I can design you a 16 core CPU; this of course says nothing of the quality and performance of that CPU.

I don't mean to bash Parallax but to make a point that making an N-core processor is itself not impressive. Making an N-core architecture that performs like this is.

8 cores yes, but this is about desktop cpus

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