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Intel's "Terascale" Vision

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the 80-cores-and-nothing-on dept.

Vigile writes, "Intel is pushing the envelope with its latest vision — 80 cores on a single processor. Dubbed 'Terascale' computing, Intel aims to bring low-powered, massively interconnected cores and unleash a new era in data-mining, media creation, and entertainment." For balance, read Tom Yager over at InfoWorld imploring AMD to stop at 8 cores while everybody gets the architecture right.

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  1. Why have 8 strong ox? by chroot_james · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When you can have 80 underfed chickens?

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  2. Lots of uses for 80 processors by gsfprez · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm a video guy. I can't render video fast enough. I can't do transcoding fast enough. My video is getting larger and deeper in color, and i need more power.

    all of that is threadable.

    so is photographic processing. You can divide a picture 80 ways and have each processor do whatever it is you want to do on it.

    Gamers? Fscking a.... i'm so SICK of hearing hiow everything is for them. Just because something isn't going to help Halo Life 3 run faster is not any of my concern.

    There are lots of people working on their computers that want to see more cores because it will make our lives better.

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