Intel: Interesting Read, 80 Cores

bobad · Feb 12, 2007

An experimental chip with 80 cores, 1 teraflop, pulling only 62 watts. That is either a typo, or alien technology. It's hard to even guess at what will be in our boxes 10 years from now... if we even use boxes.

http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/MailHome.asp?datePublish=2007/2/12&pages=PR&seq=203

phantasm · Feb 12, 2007

No matter how you look at it... that's impressive.

ChinStrap · Feb 12, 2007

hardcore. i like how they talked about the mesh and core to core commmunications. hello bandwidth!

Surfrider77 · Feb 12, 2007

Would be cool if someone at Intel threw a benchmark on it just for a laugh.

Evilsizer · Feb 12, 2007

hmm and i found that news on the intel GPU in the works for 08 or 10 irc. i bet there multi gpu in one die will be based on this type of tech. would be interesting to see how everything pans out with this tech.

ChinStrap · Feb 12, 2007

Isn’t the PS3 based on a floating point core architecture like that (?)

Evilsizer · Feb 12, 2007

ChinStrap said:
Isn’t the PS3 based on a floating point core architecture like that (?)

kinda but not really not sure how to describe it. it is a cpu developed by IBM/Sony called the cell cpu. wiether it uses things that intel is talking about is another thing. as i havent seen much "tech" info on the cpu as a whole from them.

inkfx · Feb 12, 2007

Aw, the site is currently down. I don't get to read this till later.

nd4spdbh2 · Feb 12, 2007

wow thats some serious horsepower there and at that wattage... WTF! mabey if there was a multithreaded super pi the cpu would produce negative times :santa:

Gautam · Feb 12, 2007

nd4spdbh2 said:
the cpu would produce negative times

lekyiscool · Feb 12, 2007

but will itbe able to play pong

(Clanger)(DOA) · Feb 12, 2007

Gautam said:

Shell · Feb 12, 2007

No matter how powerful Intel makes their CPUs... they're still going to starve their CPUs of memory bandwidth and latency with a 15-year-old architecture. :beer:

That's a crazy number cruncher... they need to make a new folding client.

I'm guessing... 40watts X 80 cores... oh yay. I'll need a 240v,15amp plug for that thing. Good thing I have a few of those monster plugs available. :bday:

nd4spdbh2 · Feb 12, 2007

Shell said:
No matter how powerful Intel makes their CPUs... they're still going to starve their CPUs of memory bandwidth and latency with a 15-year-old architecture.

That's a crazy number cruncher... they need to make a new folding client.

I'm guessing... 40watts X 80 cores... oh yay. I'll need a 240v,15amp plug for that thing. Good thing I have a few of those monster plugs available.

this is true... a c2d with on die memory controler and some ddr2 800 or 1000

:drool:

heck pop in some reverse hyperthreading on top of the on die and we got our selves a deal.

hUMANbEATbOX · Feb 12, 2007

Shell said:
I'm guessing... 40watts X 80 cores... oh yay. I'll need a 240v,15amp plug for that thing. Good thing I have a few of those monster plugs available.

hmm...maybe read the article?

Intel's pointed out that its research chip achieves this same performance on a multi-core chip while consuming only 62 watts – less than many single-core processors today.

splat · Feb 12, 2007

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2925

i love anandtech articles. they're always extremely over my head, so i always end up just looking at the pretty pictures.

Shell · Feb 12, 2007

hUMANbEATbOX said:
hmm...maybe read the article?

I read the article a while ago... and I totally forgot what it said.
I Have Now Reread it. :beer:

And I remembered why it did not catch my interest... not X86 or x64.

I really think that adding more and more cores is the lazy way to make a faster processor, a powerful core architecture is far better, too many cores just leads to multi-threading pains and inefficiency.

But damn... that makes me hunger for more cores, I'm thinking NATIVE CORE 2 OCTOCORE! With On-dye, 256-bit DDR3-EL memory controller! :bday:

It could be done within a shore time! We'd then have the processing power needed to... play Games set to "Uber-Ultra-Freak'en-High", fold proteins, and Spacetime!

Airbornederekc · Feb 12, 2007

i want one. i dont like my 4 anymore i want 80.

inkfx · Feb 12, 2007

I'm excited and let down at the same time. Hardware today is moving to fast for our software.

dominick32 · Feb 14, 2007

When is this hitting Newegg.com? :beer:

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