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48 Core Vega 2 in the Making
TobyKY76 writes to tell us The Inquirer is reporting that upstart Azul Systems is planning to integrate 48 cores on their next generation chip. From the article: "The first-generation Vega processor it designed has 24 cores but the firm expects to double that level of integration in systems generally available next year with the Vega 2, built on TSMC's 90nm process and squeezing in 812 million transistors. The progress means that Azul's Compute Appliances will offer up to 768-way symmetric multiprocessing."
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Enough CPU power that even Microsoft Office will run with a little pep!
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Would'nt wanna see how htop looked on that possible SMP setup... I would have to page down atleast 80-100 pages of per-processor load meters before i got to the processes list :S
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So, chip manufacturer's have adopted the Gillette approach to marketing chips. I guess it was inevitable after they went from one core to two. The only difference, I expect, is that they'll increase by powers of 2. Soon, we'll have a Intel Mach 512 Core Sensor Extreme or something :P
If Intel's two cores are 'Extreme Edition' what should these be called? Ludicrous Edition? With a little sign by them saying 'Never Use'?
Trying to be humorous, not seriously comparing the two chips.
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Finally, a hardware platform that will support Windows Vista.
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Ah, never mind.
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Funny I think leaking head gaskets and rust when ever I see Vega. I must be getting old.
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yeah, frankly, 640 cores should be enough for everybody, no?
"duel core"? Are they fighting or something? They will not share the work very well if they are fighting. Maybe you should give them a time-out or something.
Right now, it seems like they're a company, but they don't have a product yet. I guess that means...
There is no Vega only Azul.
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