Intel pledges 80 cores in five years

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Intel went from core-less to core-crazy. Is excess the right answer ?

Is there a solid architecture to back up the 80 core plan? Or is this all just fireworks to demonstrate that Intel can do multicore and exceed SUNs current plans?

It is strange to me to see this appearance of shift og interest to large counts of cores. Intel clinged to their low core / socket count (four) for the last thenty-five years. The reason for this was that the volume market was with the very low count SMPs. The multi-core/socket market is still a niche for the HPC communitities or outfits of the likes of banks or Google.

What did Intel see in the high CPU count market? S/w is still the prevailing problem there. The developers of specialized applications (numerical computing) could leverage (in many cases) more cores. This is still a narrow niche. It seems that Intel now is after the dreamy world of next-generation computing.

These latecomer finding of faith in areas negelected systematically by Intel makes me wonder how much they are committed in pursuing this lengthy and rocky road.

If they can stay the course, that's good for all of us... In the worst case the forefront of this technology would have advanced.

Incidentally, IBM appears to be slowly exiting the "exotic architecture" path and starts promoting more mainstream systems. As a matter of fact, there seem to be ongoing discussions with AMD to let them produce motherboards come Power7.

It's just amazing that all this progress was instigated to the largest extent by AMD and its success with Opterons !

Progress w/o competition is next to impossible.

Posted by: Dr-T   Posted on: 09/26/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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