Darren New wrote:
> 
> There's no reason it couldn't be. The parts in your cell phone all have
> individually-controlled power so they can be turned off for the
> miliseconds you're not using them to make the battery last longer. I
> wouldn't be surprised if people worried about it enough (at least the
> heat if not the power consumption) that Intel went and added such to the
> separate cores.
> 

Well, my laptop from early 2007 (C2D T5600) could do it. I could even
fix the other core to run at 1GHz and let the other one throttle between
1 and 1,83GHz due to need of cycles.

So yes, I'd it's common on today's processors.

-Aero

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