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by fulafel
4214 days ago
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Intel was relatively late to the game, their multiprocessor support started getting decent around the Pentium Pro. The Unix workstation vendors (Sun etc) had dual CPU workstations a while earlier, but mostly SMP was used in servers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation_10 Feather in the hat for first multi-core CPU on single die goes to IBM and the Power4 in 2001, preceding Intel's attempt by ~4 years. (Trivia: IBM also sold a Power4 MCM with 4 Power4 chips in a single package). (Yes some people managed to stitch together earlier x86 processors too with custom hardware, but it wasn't pretty or cheap or fast). |
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