Intel to Provide Researchers with 48-Core Processors
Intel has recently announced that they’re providing certain top universities around the world with the engineering samples of a processor with no less than 48 cores, which is four times more than AMD’s new Opteron 6100 series.
As a part of the company’s Tera-scale Computing Research Program, the 48-core processor is known as SCC (single-chip cloud computer). Built with 45nm CMOS processor, the processor features 24 routers for inter-core communication and four DDR3 memory controllers, running at 1.66GHz-1.83GHz with a TDP of 25W-125W.
According to TCMagazine, Intel plans to build chips with 100 or more cores on-die and offer them to researchers this quarter.
April 10th, 2010 at 7:43 am
HOLYSHIT O_O
can it play crysis?
April 12th, 2010 at 1:37 am
probably not, and even if it did it would be much slower than a single core, faster processor. just because it has so many cores, doesn’t mean the program can use them all.
February 27th, 2011 at 9:11 am
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