Intel showcases 80-core CPU

[Zachstar]

Intel showcases 80-core CPU

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...10107&Itemid=1

First of all, this is not Larrabee; we’ve asked, and the engineer guarding this live demo with his life told us that this is a project that started even before Larrabee. This is a CPU of the future that features 80 small cores and this CPU can perform 1 Teraflop with these 80 cores with 78.35W and 3.13GHz clock speed.

This CPU is smart; if you don’t need that much computational power it will shut down most of its cores and downclock the CPU all the way to 780MHz, the peak Teraflops performance will drop to 0.01 and it will only need 6.45W to compute the 4tile, 4x4 matrix mult withcomm equation.

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WOW!!!!

The most impressive feature is not it's raw power but its ability to use as little as needed to get by when you are not trying to get to the top of a fold@home team.

This is the future I guess. More and more cores added with 3D transistors will EASILY hold us over until qbits invade the home PC scene.

With Far Cry 2 we are just under the point of not being able to tell a game scene from a video scene. Who knows where THIS will take us.

My guess? Only LARGE game companies can keep up..