The prototype was built so that the chip giant's researchers could investigate the best way to make such a large number of processing cores communicate with each other. This was in addition to researching new architectural techniques and core designs.
The chip, dubbed the Tera-Scale Teraflop Prototype, is just for research purposes and lacks a lot of necessary functionality at the moment. However, R&D Technology Strategist Manny Vara said that the company will be able to produce 80-core chips en masse in five to eight years.
Holy multiprocessors batman!
With an 80 Core processor you could render games with lifelike quality.
Sweeettttt.
This is months old. This also does not translate to 80 core x86. It's a completely different ISA.
Posted by: skywalker at February 1, 2007 04:41 PM