Intel Labs has demonstrated a 48-core processor which could have around "10 to 20 times the processing engines inside today's Intel Core-branded processors", writes Electronics Weekly editor, Richard WIlson.Dubbed a "single-chip cloud computer", the chip has 1.3 billion transistors, making it the biggest processor Intel has ever developed.
It is just an experimental device, but Intel Labs has created a working device which ran real-world applications in a demonstration in California this week.
According to Intel, the system will use some of the techniques learnt in its six- and eight-core processors due for release later in 2010.
Intel dubs it a "Single-chip Cloud Computer", and more information is provided in a blog post by Jim Held, the Intel Fellow in charge of the company's Tera-scale research programme.
See also: Forget 48-core chips, Intel goes after the Apple apps-store
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Intel dubs it a "Single-chip Cloud Computer", and more information is provided in a blog post by Jim Held, the Intel Fellow in charge of the company's Tera-scale research programme.
See also: Forget 48-core chips, Intel goes after the Apple apps-store
Read the full article >>
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