Intel demos 80-core Chip

Sovereign · Post by **Sovereign** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:02 pm

According to PC World, Intel has created an 80-core superchip that does a teraflop per second at 3.16GHz. No, clocking it at 5GHz doesn't help, efficiency decreases rapidly with more speed. Diminishing marginal returns suck.

snowking03 · Post by **snowking03** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:39 pm

Checked this up yesterday and it's simply amazing. There's already a 96 or 94 core chip out there, but it's made for a single purpose while this will be a general purpose chip. Too bad they don't have an architecture for it yet, can't communicate with anything so to speak.

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:46 pm

It's not made up of x86 cores......basically it's not a very smart chip...per say. It uses code like the Itanium proc. ie. the compiler has to do all the hard work.
It's just a proof of concept......they will/are learn(ing) from this.

Anandtech has a nice write up on this, not too technical ;)