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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Re:768 cores, why?

[TummyX]

This co-processor is specifically designed to accelerate JVMs. Specifically, they've modified sun's hotspot java vm to use their co-processor. Think about massive Java appservers where you've got thousands of concurrent users with each user using one or more threads. The accelerater would allow the application and business logic from many users to be, physically, processed in parallel.

The points about graphics and other algorithms made by others are valid but aren't *really* the target market for this chip when you look see that the company's partners are java app server vendors (BEA etc).