Original article:Intel is about a month away from unveiling the specs for a research prototype of an 80-core chip that they've developed. That's right: Not an 8-core; this is an 80-core chip.
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Original article:Intel is about a month away from unveiling the specs for a research prototype of an 80-core chip that they've developed. That's right: Not an 8-core; this is an 80-core chip.
Intel explicitly talked about that, it is one of the reasons they decided to attempt this. If you read the details each of the 80 cores is 5-way associative, it can quickly shuffle data to any of it's neighboring cores via a router integrated in every core. The 5th direction was for the option of a second layer of mem cache to be stacked above the cores, giving all 80 cores a direct link into the cache.Gamble wrote:Ok, honestly I think that seems a little bit ridiculous, to connect all the cores to each other core would require more die space than the cores themselves.....Yes I believe 8-core, 16-core progression is dandy, but to jump into development of something that would require communication on that level, I just don't find that feasible.