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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. Windows testing by Alsee · · Score: -1, Troll

    Intel engineers reported obtaining a 12% speed up for Windows running on this CPU, but testing had to be halted when one of the programs crashed and several employees received a near fatal overdose of blue.

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  2. Re:1,000,000 cores! by Issarlk · · Score: -1, Troll

    With 1 MILLION CORES maybe the Windows Vista services would be happilly sucking 999999 dry and letting one application run really well on the last one.

  3. When am I getting paid for editing? by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Related link: Intel Says to Prepare For "Thousands of Cores"

    Post the related links you fucking incompetents.

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