Intel Shows Off 80-core Processor

thejakebrain writes "Intel has built its 80-core processor as part of a research project, but don't expect it on your desktop any time soon. The company's CTO, Justin Rattner, held a demonstration of the chip for a group of reports last week. Intel will be presenting a paper on the project at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco this week. 'The chip is capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop. That's a level of performance that required 2,500 square feet of large computers a decade ago. Intel first disclosed it had built a prototype 80-core processor during last fall's Intel Developer Forum, when CEO Paul Otellini promised to deliver the chip within five years.'" Update: 06/01 14:37 GMT by Z : This article is about four months old. We discussed this briefly last year, but search didn't show that we discussed in February.

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[Ngarrang]

This 80-core CPU might explain why Micro$oft wants to rewrite the Windows kernel to be more threaded. New instruction set, new OS. Old apps would run in a VM.

And, we may be seeing the processor for the XBox 720. Or XBox 1040. Micro$oft has always shown a preference for Intel, even though have supported AMD chip extensions, as well.

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[homeobocks]

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