Duke, Re: A 16-core design isn't totally unprecedented for the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker, Brookwood added: Intel sells a network processor with 16 cores today.
What's that mean??
It's a rather stupid remark from Brookwood. Designing a 16-core network processor is much easier due to the simple symmetry and independency of the data. Doing this for a general purpose microprocessor is completely different.