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Intel's experimental 80-core microprocessor is a marvel in processing power and low energy consumption, but a number of hurdles stand between it and everyday use.
Intel wrote:
The Teraflop Research Chip, unveiled last week, is the size of a fingertip. It can crunch a trillion calculations a second, a feat that 11 years ago required a 2,500-square-foot supercomputer. The chip's size and the fact that it uses about the same power as a two-core processor mean that it could provide unprecedented processing power.
[quote="Information Week]
The explosive growth of multicore chips with low power consumption will drive the mass adoption of virtualised computing environments. Massive scale multicore processors will get people thinking more broadly about what servers and operating systems can do to drive business applications.[/quote]
Well, Closer to home, such muscle would let video games look like TV shows and computers recognize and catalogue photos. But beyond gaming and specialty applications, the usefulness of a supercomputer in the home isn't clear.
Hmm.. This is interesting.
What sort of motherboard would you need for this?? What RAM would you need for this?? More importantly, how much money would you need for this??
I don't think they have said anything yet, but should be pretty nice- wont work on XP, or even Vista, because more than either 5 or 6 cores aren't supported...
I don't think they have said anything yet, but should be pretty nice- wont work on XP, or even Vista, because more than either 5 or 6 cores aren't supported...
Why the heck would you want to waste it on a Windows OS??
This chip is not going to be released. Intel designed and build this chip as a proof of concept and so they could work out the major problems that arise in such a complex design. This chip only uses very simply processing cores, not anything nearly as complex as the x86 based design in our computers.
Intel plans to take what they've learned from this project and incorperate it into future massive multicore designs, including one that will likely feature x86 based cores.