Limitations to development of SMP improvements

     SMP performance...

   * Limited range for linear scaling for SMP applications

   * Commercial applications generally have limited SMP scaling capability

        o Technical applications usually scale better

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     CPUs

     Performance

     100%

     500%

     Technical Application

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