Semiconductor manufacturers and designers are now devoting a lot of effort to making sure software developers tune their applications for future waves of multicore microprocessors. But these chipmakers are facing a more immediate issue: How should software companies price their products running on these new microprocessors?
Historically, software vendors have charged license fees based on each processor running in each and every computer in a customer’s network. When single-core processors were the status quo, the issue didn’t arise — one socket, one processor plugged into it, one incremental fee.
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