(cf)Eclipse said:even then.. a 70% boost isn't awesome for a 100% boost in theoretical ability
anyhow, for those who are saying that they won't be able to make an 80 core chip without it being too big, hot, whatever. the solution is REALLY simple. processors today are really bloated. i mean REALLY bloated..
drop it down to the bare essentials, and 80 cores will easily fit within a normal sized die at 32nm, which is the process size we will most likely be at in 5 years
Really depends on what sort of hardware you want on each core. Having more than one execution unit wouldn't make much sense, since you're already massively parallel anyway.
I think the reason we saw that demo on socket 7 was because the Pentium chips only had one execution unit IIRC, and they made a massive grid of oldschool P5's. I may be entirely wrong