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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A fundamental change in the design of microprocessors is presenting software developers with a challenge — and a huge financial opportunity.
Chip makers are no longer racing to have the fastest microprocessor and have shifted their focus away from building chips with a single, super-fast calculating core. Instead, to save energy and reduce heat, they're putting multiple cores on the same chip — the equivalent of several computers on the same slice of silicon.
The cores run slower but are more energy-efficient, and are designed to break up big chores and work on the separate pieces simultaneously.
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