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Ask HN: How many CPU cores do you personally own?

by KevBurnsJr on 5/30/12, 10:51 PM with 11 comments

How many CPU cores do you personally own across all devices in your posession? What's the national average?

  • by joezydeco on 5/31/12, 2:24 AM

    Hmm, good question.

      Two cars: probably 50 in one and 20 in the other.
  iMac including internal/external peripherals: 10?
  2 iDevices: 8 more (CPU, touch controller, GSM modules?)
  My kitchen probably has 10-20 in various appliances.
  Kids toys and video games: probably 40-50.
  Cameras: 4-5
  Almost every SD card has an ARM core, so 30 more there.
  TV sets, Sat decoder, DVR: another 10?
    I'd say 200 easily. I'd guess most households are somewhere around this number.

  • by zissou on 5/31/12, 9:57 AM

    My list:

    1 Intel i72700k desktop (4c), 1 Intel i72670qm HP laptop (4c), 1 Intel i3330m Acer laptop (2c), 1 AMD Phenom II x6 1100t desktop (6c), 1 AMD Phenom II x4 830 desktop (4c), 1 AMD C60 Acer laptop (2c), 1 Tegra II Viewsonic gtablet (1c), 1 Tegra II Droid X phone (1c), and an ARM in the Raspberry Pi (1c).

    Looks like I notch in at 25. I'm in a technology/business related research field.

  • by aidenn0 on 5/31/12, 12:24 AM

    I have dozens of microcontrollers for my own development projects, and I would estimate ~100 in various consumer devices.

    Something I'm looking for an excuse to buy would add 288 cores with a single PCB:

    http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/

  • by Saavedro on 5/30/12, 10:57 PM

    If we're only counting x86/ARM, 10.

         x86:
       * Quad core PC
       * Dual core Macbook
     ARM:
       * Two dual-core android devices (phone, tablet)
    Course, there's the PPC Xbox 360. I have no idea what's in my internet blu-ray player.. I'd bet it's ARM.

  • by Fizzadar on 5/30/12, 11:25 PM

    12: 4 iMac 4 PC 2 Macbook Air 2 iPhone

    Technically I also own 16x4 core servers in Germany as well, totalling 76 cores!

    edit: ps3/wii also, but not sure on the core counts

  • by SlipperySlope on 5/31/12, 12:34 AM

    I am a software developer - so more cores than many. 2 x 4 core 1 x 2 core 2 x 1 core 4 x 1 core cell phone total 16 cores other than appliances

  • by thomasnno on 6/1/12, 5:24 AM

    16 cores in conventional pcs(2 laptops, 2 desktops), a wii, an iphone and a kindle, so 19 total

  • by readme on 5/30/12, 10:52 PM

    6

        quad core pc
    dual core mobile device

  • by marssaxman on 5/31/12, 12:14 AM

    seven: two dual-core Mac minis, an Atom-based netbook, and a Galaxy Nexus...

    ...plus the ones in my synthesizer, drum machine, and camera, I suppose. There's probably one in the router, too.

  • by SkyMarshal on 5/31/12, 12:59 AM

    Including hyperthreaded cores, or not?

  • by latch on 5/31/12, 12:36 AM

    3: Dual core air, smartphone.