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Tetracontakaioctagon CPU, Intel's 48-Core Processor, Wow!!

by quasar-atl Dec 2, 2009 4:10AM PST

Dear Buzz Gang and Crew,
When I read this, it was so wild that I had to look it up. It appears that Intel is coming out in the near future with a 48-Core processor with 1.3-billion transistors. This would make this processor a "Tetracontakaioctagon" core processor. Wow, that is a mouth full.

Next stop.....Artificial Intelligence!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10407818-92.html
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356557,00.asp
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39918721,00.htm

Later people..

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Hmm

by Nicholas Buenk Dec 2, 2009 9:38AM PST

But GPU's already have many more cores than this, and with CUDA and opencl you can use them!
Just remember not all cores are created equally, this doesn't mean you can think of it as a 48 core i7.

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If you read carefully...

by Slikkster Dec 2, 2009 11:34PM PST

these individual cores are actually not very powerful at all. More like Atom cores.

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