Topic: Intel Handing Out Samples of Experimental 48-Core Chip

[Nemesis]

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Just when you thought your 6-core  chip was the baddest processor on the planet, Intel goes and announces plans to ship PCs equipped with an experimental 48-core CPU to a handful of lucky researchers sometime by the end of the second quarter.

That doesn't mean that you just wasted $1,100 and that your Core i7 980X is suddenly obsolete. As part of a research project, the 48-core part might never become commercially available, and if it did, it would be destined for mainframes and supercomputing tasks, not home desktops.

According to Sean Koehl, technology evangelist with Intel Labs, remarkably the 48-core part only draws between 25W and 125W, and cores can be slowed down or shut off completely in order to save power.

I wonder how it does SETI?

[Tus-XC]

wonder if it can play crysis

[Centurus]

Imagine a chip like that with 4 of nVidia's upcoming GTX 400 cards in quad SLI.  Play several instances of whatever high end graphics games there are at the same time. 

[marstone]

Imagine a chip like that with 4 of nVidia's upcoming GTX 400 cards in quad SLI.  Play several instances of whatever high end graphics games there are at the same time.

'I'd say imagine what nVidia will be able to do if they can do the 48 core processore as a GPU

[Centurus]

Imagine a chip like that with 4 of nVidia's upcoming GTX 400 cards in quad SLI.  Play several instances of whatever high end graphics games there are at the same time.

'I'd say imagine what nVidia will be able to do if they can do the 48 core processore as a GPU

Oh....that's evil.  So so evil.  I LIKE IT!!!!!!!  Now how many terabytes of GDDR15 ram do we want on it?  :-D

[marstone]

Imagine a chip like that with 4 of nVidia's upcoming GTX 400 cards in quad SLI.  Play several instances of whatever high end graphics games there are at the same time.

'I'd say imagine what nVidia will be able to do if they can do the 48 core processore as a GPU

Oh....that's evil.  So so evil.  I LIKE IT!!!!!!!  Now how many terabytes of GDDR15 ram do we want on it?  :-D

I'd say 2 terabytes, and then quad SLI them.