Intel’s 80 core CPU that isn’t

**MIG-31** · Feb 21, 2007, 09:15 PM

Source: Zdnet (Blog)
Thanks to mike2h for the submit.
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Intel's researchers have produced an 80-core chip that uses less energy than a quad-core processor and has teraflop performance capabilities.

Researchers have built the prototype to study how best to make that many cores communicate with each other. They're also studying new designs for cores and new architectural techniques, according to Manny Vara, a technology strategist with Intel's R&D labs. The chip is just for research purposes and lacks some necessary functionality at this point, but Vara says Intel will be able to produce a chip with 80 cores in five to eight years.

coldfrontt · Feb 22, 2007, 02:46 AM

We'll need it for the next version of Windows...

CDsDontBurn · Feb 22, 2007, 03:45 AM

80 cores on one chip?

in a server maybe. i couldn't see that for the regular consumer.

SFOSOK · Feb 22, 2007, 07:50 AM

I think they're just making up words now in a hope to impress us

CDsDontBurn · Feb 22, 2007, 08:05 AM

that's what i'm thinking too.....

in 5yrs. tops 16 cores on one CPU.

moore's law is that tech doubles every 18 months. we're barely at 4 cores now, so there's time to go still even for that.

Vampyromaniac · Feb 22, 2007, 09:04 PM

You can easily make more cores if you use fewer transistors per core

CDsDontBurn · Feb 22, 2007, 09:36 PM

but then you can just merge them all together for one large core

Judas · Feb 22, 2007, 09:47 PM

yeah that'd cut down on the latency between each core

Feb 21, 2007, 09:15 PM	#1
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CDsDontBurn 127.0.0.1 Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,458 Rep Power: 202 System Specs	that's what i'm thinking too..... in 5yrs. tops 16 cores on one CPU. moore's law is that tech doubles every 18 months. we're barely at 4 cores now, so there's time to go still even for that. __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

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