Last week Intel demonstrated a fully programmable 48 core processor that was capable of running standard x86 applications that are found on today’s common Pentium processors. Intel is calling this new experimental chip the Single Chip Cloud Computing and Justin Rattner the CTO of Intel is claiming that these processors will have the capability to allow machines to have the processing power to understand the world around them as humans do which will bring a new generation of powerful computing devices that will be able to perform functions only dreamed of in Science Fiction worlds right now I imagine.
These chips will be linked to 4 memory controllers and each link can pass 64 gigabytes of data per second and a computer using this configuration can hold up to 64 gigabytes of RAM. Intel is giving away 100 of these experimental systems to various companies and partners to further programming research and testing, Microsoft is one of many partners who will be getting their hands on one of the 48 core systems.
Who wants to guess on what type of software or computing programs we will see when these powerful computers start hitting the mainstream?
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December 6th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Wow, thanks for the news. I think hardware has been way ahead of software for a while now. I have a core2duo with a few gigs of ram from 3 years ago and it’s still fast as hell. It’ll be exciting to see what kind of software evolution we will see in the next 10 years or so.
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December 21st, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Software programming need to catch up with this parallel processing. Else the chip is useless.
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March 9th, 2010 at 5:08 am
intel now has i7 core, wondering how many cores it has…
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March 9th, 2010 at 8:07 am
Intel i7 is two quad cores fused, so 8 cores.
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