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The Father of Multi-Core Chips Talks Shop

Posted by timothy on from the green-onion-layered-beneath-yogurt dept.

pacopico writes "Stanford professor Kunle Olukotun designed the first mainstream multi-core chip, crafting what would become Sun Microsystems's Niagra product. Now, he's heading up Stanford's Pervasive Parallelism Lab where researchers are looking at 100s of core systems that might power robots, 3-D virtual worlds and insanely big server applications. The Register just interviewed Olukotun about this work and the future of multi-core chips. Weird and interesting stuff."

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  1. Cool but... by bakedpatato · · Score: 0, Redundant

    let's just hope that more programs in the future are written so that they can scale well to the 100s of cores that new CPUs will have. People were pretty slow to get onto the dual core bandwagon...so here's hoping.