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How different cores communicate in multicore processor ?

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How different cores communicate in multicore processor ?
posted May 30, 2014 by anonymous

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Multicore can be viewed as multi-cpu on a single chip, though different vendors i.e. Intel, AMD has different architecture but all have a shared cache and bus interface for the communication.

See the following figure of Intel Core-2 Duo Architecture -
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Not sure if you are looking this info or anything specific.

answer May 30, 2014 by Salil Agrawal
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