Intel 48 core press release

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20091202comp_sm.htm

by nearestneighbor • 17 years ago

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chaosmachine• 17 years ago

In 2003, Intel was saying they'd have 10ghz processors by the end of the decade.

http://www.design-reuse.com/news/4850/intel-building-blocks-...

InclinedPlane2• 17 years ago

The difference is that this 48-core chip is actual hardware, in the here and now.

bumblebird4• 17 years ago

Maybe it's useful for science, but it seems like the moment has past when most consumers were blocked by CPU power.

My next upgrade will be to a SSD. Making my CPU go a bit faster is pretty useless when it's usually waiting on disk/network anyway.

I'm betting on a move the other way - toward low power 'internet thin clients' like a netbook with chrome on it. That'll do most people.

tsally3• 17 years ago

Here's an announcement from a different company for a 64 core processor from 2007. http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/08/MIT-startup-rai...

DarkShikari2• 17 years ago

Tilera's chip isn't really comparable though: it's really just a big DSP, with an extremely limited memory access model more reminiscent of the Cell SPUs than an ordinary CPU. This, combined with a custom instruction set and the lack of decent caches and vector units let you get away with many more cores on much less silicon using much less power--albeit at a clear cost.

tsally3• 17 years ago

The title of the video is "single-chip cloud computing". At least it's buzzword compliant.

nearestneighbor2• 17 years ago

This is referring to the fact that you can programmatically power off most of the cores.

tsally3• 17 years ago

Dynamically scalable applications are only a small subset of the massive number of things that have fallen under the umbrella of "cloud computing". The definition cloud computing is sufficiently vague that phrases like "single chip cloud computing" don't really have a single intuitive definition.

Ennis• 17 years ago

This is fantastic. I guess I agree that most people don't need the latest and greatest processor - just like a car. But the faster you can run a simulation or compile code the better. It's not always just about web browsing and games on a pc.

rbanffy6• 17 years ago

I am sure games will have a good use for that much cores...

As for browsing, may with 48 cores at their disposal, Adobe can finally speed up Flash on Linux...

Boom badoom tsss

seunosewa• 17 years ago

Flash applets can't be trivially parallelized.

wwkeyboard• 17 years ago

The "Demo Fact Sheet"[1] is really pie-in-the-sky. My favourites are "Cloud Programming on a Chip: Hadoop Web Search" and "Programming for the 3D Internet: JavaScript Server Farm on a Chip"

[1] http://download.intel.com/pressroom/pdf/rockcreek/Demo_facts...

Intel 48 core press release

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