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Startup Wants To Put 64-Cores In Your Smartphone
angry tapir writes "Startup chip design company Adapteva has announced the multicore Epiphany processor, which is designed to accelerate applications in servers and low-power devices such as smartphones and tablets. The RISC-based processor is scalable to thousands of cores on a single chip, and can sit alongside CPUs to provide real-time execution of diverse applications. Epiphany chips are currently scalable up to 64 cores in smartphones and up to 4,000 cores in servers. The processor can accelerate tasks like hand gesture recognition, face matching or face tracking, but is not designed to be a full-fledged CPU."
I wonder what good it would do them if they stick their toaster oven into my Nokia 6303c?
You have 64 cores. That's gonna run much hotter than a toaster oven....though probably not for long enough to make toast.
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Yeah. With that many cores, you could have TWO websites that use Flash open at the same time!
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Because marketing thinks that if they have N cores it will sell better than a phone with only N-1 cores. And they're probably right.
Smells of infomercials and burned popcorn.
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Modern CPUs use huge numbers of transistors for small increases in speed, so there's no question such a chip would be much more efficient for tasks that fit it - again, like GPUs.