The Future of Intel Processors

madison writes to mention coverage at ZDNet on the future of Intel technology. Multicore chips are their focus for the future, and researchers at the company are working on methods to adapt them for specific uses. The article cites an example were the majority of the cores are x86, with some accelerators and embedded graphics cores added on for added functionality. "Intel is also tinkering with ways to let multicore chips share caches, pools of memory embedded in processors for rapid data access. Cores on many dual- and quad-core chips on the market today share caches, but it's a somewhat manageable problem. "When you get to eight and 16 cores, it can get pretty complicated," Bautista said. The technology would prioritize operations. Early indications show that improved cache management could improve overall chip performance by 10 percent to 20 percent, according to Intel." madison also writes, "In another development news Intel has updated its Itanium roadmap to include a new chip dubbed 'Kittson' to follow the release of Poulson. That chip will be based on a new microarchitecture that provides higher levels of parallelism."

Interesting! Cell is making waves after all...

[seebs]

I think Cell's taught us two important things about heterogeneous multicore:
1. It's fairly hard to develop for.
2. It's bloody fast.

Looks like Intel's gonna be running with it some; that's good news for anyone making a living selling compilers! :) Buy stock in gcc...

But gee

[MrNonchalant]

What I really want is a dialogue with Intel engineers about this piece of Intel-themed news. Why can't you add something like that to the site? You could call it something like Opinions With Intel or Intel And Opinions or Center for Intel. No that's not quite right.

This story should be posted 8 times

[Timesprout]

So we can can have comments in parallel.

Re:This story should be posted 8 times

[MyLongNickName]

Be patient. The other five articles should appear soon.

Improved cash management

[gEvil (beta)]

I've found that improved cash management does wonders for me, like allowing me to buy things like new processors.

Re:Oblig.

[walt-sjc]

What would a duck do with 80 cores? Quack in harmony?

Re:This story should be posted 8 times

[wbren]

So we can can have comments in parallel.

I think you ramped up your clock frequency too much. Your instructions are overlapping, causing data corruption in the pipeline and grammar mistakes. :-)

Re:Still using pong and VT52 terminals

[Anonymous Coward]

At the parties i go to, we don't waste our time playing video games, or editing documents.

Or talking to girls.

Re:Instead of more power

[ichigo 2.0]

For some reason javascript is slow on all browsers. I believe there is a W3C spec that mandates it.