Intel Readies Massive Multicore Processors

[HardOCP News]

The co-director of Intel's Tera-scale Computing Research Program says that the company is working on ways to make it easier for computer manufacturers and software developers to adapt to massive multicore processors.

These multicore chips, he added, will also likely contain both x86 processing cores, similar to the brains inside the vast majority of Intel's server and PC chips today, as well as other types of cores. A 64-core chip, for instance, might contain 42 x86 cores, 18 accelerators and four embedded graphics cores.

 

[Methadras]

That's insane. Uh, I want one?

 

[Manny Calavera]

Makes the Fusion look like a childs toy.

 

[Sabrewulf165]

Makes the Fusion look like a childs toy.

What a completely irrelevant comparison.. Fusion is coming a couple of years, that 64-core example probably won't be a reality for a decade at least.

 

[Manny Calavera]

Fusion is coming a couple of years

Of course it is,just like all AMD launches are always right on time.

Not.