8 core cpus....

nsgnsg · Jan 4, 2008

when do you guys predict they will come out.. cause i am building a new system with the q660, and my brother asked me when i was gonna upgrade i said when 8 cores come out, so i was wondering does anyone know when they will come out.. if yes... how long would it take to cost under 400..

is it too early to know, has intel announced anything???

nightelph · Jan 4, 2008

I'm not aware of any announcements from Intel on that, but don't expect it for at least a couple years.

EmAn · Jan 4, 2008

this may help you out a little bit...

brought from the frontpage discussions

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=536723

th3 · Jan 4, 2008

8 threads will be available by the end of the year, 4 cores with Hyperthreading that is. BUT, the way AMD is these days Intel could very well delay that, its not like they have any competition to worry about so why rush new products to the market?

Btw, 8 physical cores for single socket systems has been available for many years already (2005 i think), the Sun Ultrasparc T1 has 8 cores and 32 threads and the Ultrasparc T2 (launched a few months ago) has 8 cores and 64 threads, so strictly speaking your upgrade is already many years over due.

orion456 · Jan 4, 2008

Eight? How about 80! Feb, 2007:

Intel shows off 80-core processor

By Tom Krazit
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: February 11, 2007

Chief Technical Officer Justin Rattner demonstrated the processor in San Francisco last week for a group of reporters, and the company will present a paper on the project during the International Solid State Circuits Conference in the city this week.

The chip is capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop. That's a level of performance that required 2,500 square feet of large computers a decade ago.

nightelph · Jan 4, 2008

80!? Wowww.. How about 1024 cores?

reclaimer122 · Jan 4, 2008

I don't think either will be available for use on the system nsgnsg is considering

LOL, if only, if only...

AlabamaCajun · Jan 4, 2008

nightelph said:
80!? Wowww.. How about 1024 cores?

That nukin futs! This could be a step we are headed with AMDs Fusion and Intels Direct Connect.

nsgnsg · Jan 4, 2008

reclaimer122 said:
I don't think either will be available for use on the system nsgnsg is considering

LOL, if only, if only...

ya... well atleast theirs one person here who knows what i mean

lol 1024.. thats really amazing..

glockjs · Jan 4, 2008

hardware is out pacing software by far. tbh 2 cores is enough to do anything these days and 4 cores is luxury ^ ^ i wouldnt expect octo cores for years from now but the way technology changes who knows.

Karbon · Jan 4, 2008

http://www.mikeshardware.co.uk/RoadmapQ408.htm#Intel Nehalem

I found this site a couple weeks ago trying to find something totally unrelated, but it seems pretty detailed.

http://www.mikeshardware.co.uk said:
Intel Nehalem CPU, the successor to the Core architecture and based on a 45nm process, is expected to be released in H2. Nehalem is expected to feature up to 8 cores, with two simultaneous threads per core - similar to Intel's Pentium 4 Hyperthreading technology, a multi-tiered cache system and an integrated DDR3 memory controller with support for 1 to 4 channels depending on the CPU model. Certain Nehalem models will also feature an integrated graphics core. Nehalem will introduce a new point-to-point serial bus (Common Serial Bus - CSI), replacing the antiquated PSB of previous generations.

Evilsizer · Jan 4, 2008

you can get 8cores now if you can spend the money for a LGA771/FB-Dimm setup, its 2 cpu sockets on one board....

8 core cpus....

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