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SemperFi
10-01-06, 06:56 AM
Intel pledges 80 cores in five years. The chips are capable of exchanging data at a terabyte a second!

Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating-point operations per second.

http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6119618.html?part=rss&tag=6119618&subj=news
nutball
10-01-06, 07:36 AM
- they're not x86 cores on the prototype
- will you never see 80-core x86 processors (there's no point (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law))
hemmy
10-01-06, 08:12 PM
intel also had a press release claiming 20GHZ CPUs by 2008
candle_86
10-01-06, 08:18 PM
its not x86 cores, but it is x86 combatablie, watch the video of IDF where he talks about this. They have a registar so they can translate x86 and send back x86 compliant data.
jAkUp
10-01-06, 08:36 PM
intel also had a press release claiming 20GHZ CPUs by 2008

lol
Tikiman44
10-01-06, 08:45 PM
intel also had a press release claiming 20GHZ CPUs by 2008

I agree with jAkUp :rofl!
Xion X2
10-02-06, 12:50 AM
intel also had a press release claiming 20GHZ CPUs by 2008


HRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...
SH64
10-02-06, 01:03 AM
First lets make a real good use of a dual-core processor then lets see about more ... :o
jAkUp
10-02-06, 01:05 AM
First lets make a real good use of a dual-core processor then lets see about more ... :o

yup..lol

I imagine it could be a nightmare for a game developer to try to make effective use of 80 cores in a processor.
MUYA
10-02-06, 01:33 AM
Very expensive CPU...2-3 good dies per wafer? Mainframe stuff...
MUYA
10-02-06, 01:35 AM
OK I just re-read Tom's HW article, the dies size is pretty small at 22mm by 14mm. Hmm
Xion X2
10-02-06, 02:34 AM
Tom's Hardware is crap. It's the ghetto PC hangout of the world-wide-web. Weren't they the same ones that claimed a 1900GT outbenched a 7950GX2 recently?
jAkUp
10-02-06, 02:35 AM
Weren't they the same ones that claimed a 1900GT outbenched a 7950GX2 recently?

lol yeah