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Intel Talks 1000-Core Processors

Posted by samzenpus on from the we're-gonna-need-a-bigger-heat-sink dept.

angry tapir writes "An experimental Intel chip shows the feasibility of building processors with 1,000 cores, an Intel researcher has asserted. The architecture for the Intel 48-core Single Chip Cloud Computer processor is 'arbitrarily scalable,' according to Timothy Mattson. 'This is an architecture that could, in principle, scale to 1,000 cores,' he said. 'I can just keep adding, adding, adding cores.'"

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  1. One question? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just how small does your penis need to be to need a 1,000 cores? Are we talking ingrown like with monster trucks or just really small? I render CG animation so a 1,000 cores has a practical use but for most we have to be talking bragging right here. I mean having a 12' tall Toyota Hilux or a 1,000 core computer has to be BYOV, Bring Your Own Vibrator time.

    1. Re:One question? by mwvdlee · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Just how small does your penis need to be to need a 1,000 cores? Are we talking ingrown like with monster trucks or just really small? I render CG animation so a 1,000 cores has a practical use but for most we have to be talking bragging right here. I mean having a 12' tall Toyota Hilux or a 1,000 core computer has to be BYOV, Bring Your Own Vibrator time.

      But just for you in particular, 1,000 cores would NOT mean "small penis"?
      Uhuh.

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  2. Re:Windows testing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I bet you're one of those geeks who sneers at Windows and Mac users and thinks he's really clever because he uses Linux, but is 30 years old and still works at Maplins or some other vaguely nerdy retail job.

  3. Would that be by SpaghettiPattern · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Would that be the German branch of Intel?

    Apologies to all Germans reading. I just couldn't resist.

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  4. Re:Imagine by nospam007 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "It's not like most of us are crunching numbers hard enough to need one, "

    I'm one of 1 and a half million users donating my crunch time (folding proteins for folding@home) and all my 8 cores are running at 100% 24/7 making my notebook keyboard too hot too touch most of the time.

    I'd buy one.