Thursday, June 14, 2007

An answer to Intel's 80-core mystery



Ever since Intel showed off its 80-core prototype processor, people have asked "Why 80 cores?"


There's actually nothing magic about the number, according to Jerry Bautista, co-director of the Tera-scale Computing Research Program at Intel, and others. Intel wanted to make a chip that could perform 1 trillion floating-point ...





Source: http://news.com.com

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