Vista system supports up to a few core CPU processors

Microsoft's technical strategy director, Tal Carlson, said in 2007 that the future of Windows systems will fundamentally change in terms of taking advantage of multi-core processors. Carlson said: "In the future, 8-core, 16-core and 64 processors will be widely used in client PCs. Currently, Windows Vista is designed for single-core, dual-core and quad-core processors."

So far, both Intel and AMD have introduced quad-core processors. Carlson said that current PC programs are designed based on serial concepts. In other words, the performance of these applications can be improved as the clock frequency of the CPU increases.

However, this model has been broken. Chip vendors have found that multicore is a good way to improve application performance. In other words, the design of the application must be suitable for parallel processing.

At present, Intel and AMD have not yet stated that they will introduce processors with more than 8 cores. But in theory it is feasible. Previously, Intel also demonstrated 80-core processor products.

Carlson finally said: "In the next 10 to 15 years, the improvement of PC computing power is almost unbelievable."