Intels experimental 48-core “single-chip cloud computer” is the latest step in multicore processing. Intel officials say such a chip will greatly improve performance and efficiency in future data centers, and will lead to new applications and interfaces between users and computers. Intel plans to have 100 or more chips in the hands of IT companies and research institutes next year to foster research into new software. Intel, AMD and others are rapidly growing the number of cores on a single silicon chip, with both companies looking to put eight or more cores on a chip in 2010.
– Intel is showing off an experimental 48-core processor that
officials say could hold 10 to 20 times the processing power now found
in a Core-branded chip.
Intel officials demonstrated the processor which they are calling a
“single-chip cloud computer” at an event in Palo Alto, Calif., Dec. 2.
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