Intel To Ship 48-Core Test Systems To Researchers

MojoKid writes "Just when you thought your 6-core chip was the fastest processor on the planet, Intel announces plans to ship systems equipped with an experimental 48-core CPU to a handful of lucky researchers sometime by the end of the second quarter. The 48 cores are arranged with multiple connect points in a serial mesh network to transfer data between cores. Each core also has on-chip buffers to instantly exchange data in parallel across all cores. According to Sean Koehl, technology evangelist with Intel Labs, the chip only draws between 25 and 125 watts."

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Re: 640 C (cores) should be enough for everybody

[Anonymous Coward]

maybe that's what bill gates meant when he said 640K should be enough... K as in Core .. it was a spelling mistake;)

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