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This doesn't seem so exciting once you realize that AMD and Intel are already shipping 12-core CPUs.
by patrickgzill 16y ago
This doesn't seem so exciting once you realize that AMD and Intel are already shipping 12-core CPUs.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoAre they? I believe they are shipping 6-core CPUs with hyper-threading (which present to the OS as 12-cores), but I'm not aware of them shipping chips with 12 physical cores. Care to cite an example?
- wmf 16y agoIntel is shipping 8-core (Xeon 7500) and AMD has a 12-core MCM (two 6-cores) (Opteron 6100).
- zmanian 16y agoBeyond approx 32 cores, cache coherent architectures don't scale. Intel faces enormous pressure to find consumer applications for message passing chip architectures otherwise the post 32 cores chips will be low volume products. Intel has been working very hard to find collaborators with application concepts for this era. Having this product permitts Intel to give them hardware rather that just FPGA simulators
- wmf 16y agoBeyond approx 32 cores, cache coherent architectures don't scale. It's not clear that this is true. Tilera is shipping 64 cores and working on 100.