Gizmodo
The NY Times, Businessweek, the AP, and others are crowing over the powerful new chips Intel demoed in an hotel room last week.
What's cool: Performing 1 Trillion calcs per second, the chip could do the same number crunching that 10 years ago took up 2,000 square feet of machinery to do. Instead of the half-megawatt of juice, it could take as little as 62 watts. The chips has 80 cores.
What sucks?: Five years, at least, til these are available. No x86 architecture version yet, even in prototype. And optimizing programs that to take advantage of eighty cores is still a very hard thing to do. Multiple core processing is still best for mass rote operations like those involving math and video.
The bottom line: Congrats on the teraflop chip, Intel, but wake us up when this baby is for sale. The Verdict: Vaporous CPU, solid PR move by Intel.
Intel's Teraflop Chips [NYTimes and Businessweek]
Comments
wow,64watts? nice....
I miss the point as to why Dr.Evil is in this article :D. So thats a supercomputer on one chip? Woo Hoo good times here we come
Gives AMD something to shoot for.
Forget x86 - just make it Vienna compatible - software vendors will adapt.
Can it play Doom?
@jomanlk
One treelion calculations...
Doom fails. Will it run DNF?
It gives AMD something not to shoot for. AMD/ATI is already shooting for the seemingly superior goal of integrating CPU's and GPU's. Whereas AMD's solution is to start integrating all of the processors in a computer that currently work independantly, Intel's solution is to throw as much processing power at it as possible at the problem and hope the computer is smart enough to figure out how to use it.
Ah, chocorua I believe this is aimed at the server/work station/super computer market. An integrated CPU/GPU set up is really a desktop thing. Two different markets entirely. Ask anyone doing high level modeling (3D, climate, nuclear physics, etc) or video encoding. For them, you can never have too much CPU power. Now programing for 80 cores, that is whole other kettle of fish...
fair point, sdsdv10.
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