Intel: 80 Cores by 2011
by Mike Zazaian September 26, 2006 - 2:16pm, 11 Comments
Intel CEO Paul Otellini demonstrated the 80-core behemoth at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday. According to Otellini, the chip is capable of transferring a terabyte of data per second. As Intel’s powerful Core 2 Duo chip is able to trasfer only 1.66 gigabytes of data per second, the proposed 80-core chip would represent a several hundred fold increase over the performance in today’s processors.
Otellini also confirmed the release of the upcoming Quad-core processors at the conference, with the 2.66 Ghz Core 2 Extreme being released in November at a stanard $1,000 US. Core 2 Quadro, the mainstream version of the processor, will be released in Q1 2007 with a clock speed of a respectable 2.4Ghz.
While information of the quad-core chips was already known, it’s always nice to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth. Especially if the horse is holding several 80-core processors in his hands.
[via cnet]
AMD better pick it up, or I won’t be purchasing anything AMD anymore…
ShuttleXpC
sweeet, can’t wait for the 5,000 core computer. Then we could get down with some real virtual reality
z
humm AMD will have a come back on this soon
Junky - Portugal
sad to say but AMD have gone down the drain. this does look very exciting tbh!
Ross_uk
LOL damn that’s gona be one huge ass CPU if they plan on squeezing 80 core into one CPU. Can you imagine the power consumption and heat output level.
Sacthu
Intel cpus already run pretty hot. Think of cooling 80cores in your room. Unless you like to live in very cold temperature controlled rooms you wouldnt want a beast like that no matter how fast.
JT
core 2 duo takes less power than many older models.
no way
I dont really see the point right now, at the moment there isnt alot of things that can benefit from even dual core and and there already talking about 80?????? they have to slow down …no one needs all that power right now. Quad core is nearly out and dual core has only been out a year or so, when will they give it a break … OH and AMD all the way, im no traitor! LOL
magic
Ok, first of all.. amd won’t have to catch up on anything… this 80 core processor, although impressive isn’t the next big thing =/…. first of all… it is going to cost way to much for the civilian section and companies are not going to waste time redesigning there machines.. JUST TO FIT THIS GIANT THING. XD. i am going to take a guess and say that this thing will be hot and require certian conditions to maintain it =/ the only thing that would even need 80 cores would be servers =/ it would be a waste on an average computer. Besides, some of the most powerful computers already have 160 if i remember properly and clock in the teraflops *stupid name i know* i dunno… i really think that intel has wasted their time here.. its like… making a 100 metre bridge.. to cross a 5 metre gap =/
Yukaze
does this thing double as a frizbie?
Glen
It is time for innovation in processor design, not more of the same. Look at STI cell processor with 8 to 20 times the computing power of the Core Duo. This is a joke… think about the power required to run that thing. Can we say sub- station on every corner. Not to mention the cryo room needed to keep it cool.
Being nice to intel let’s see 55Watts per processor taken 80 times 4.4kW…. Time to invest in a serious Power supply company.
Can this be for real