[Kal-EL]

Futuristic Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built
Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, PCs and servers. This futuristic chip boasts about 10 to 20 times the processing engines inside today's most popular Intel Core-branded processors.

The long-term research goal is to add incredible scaling features to future computers that spur entirely new software applications and human-machine interfaces. The company plans to engage industry and academia next year by sharing 100 or more of these experimental chips for hands-on research in developing new software applications and programming models.

While Intel will integrate key features in a new line of Core-branded chips early next year and introduce six- and eight-core processors later in 2010, this prototype contains 48 fully programmable Intel processing cores, the most ever on a single silicon chip. It also includes a high-speed on-chip network for sharing information along with newly invented power management techniques that allow all 48 cores to operate extremely energy efficiently at as little as 25 watts, or at 125 watts when running at maximum performance (about as much as today's Intel processors and just two standard household light bulbs).

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What can it do?

[Witchdoctor]

Interesting stuff Kal....

I will be happy with eight and eight for some 16 thread Prime action .....

Hope we see stuff like that sooner rather than later ... but it always seems we the consumer get milked every step of the way

[Neuromancer]

Pretty sure that thing would have crap desktop performance. It is moving to the HPC realm which generally means blazing fast linear processing, terrible at x86 standard stuff.

(Forget what it is called asynchronous? Integer?)

[Splave]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

What can it do?

Can it play crysis?

[karmakazi]

I think it still needs HT












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