Tilera To Release 100-Core Processor 191
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from the and-then-they-stopped-counting dept.
from the and-then-they-stopped-counting dept.
angry tapir writes "Tilera has announced new general-purpose CPUs, including a 100-core chip. The two-year-old startup's Tile-GX series of chips are targeted at servers and appliances that execute Web-related functions such as indexing, Web search and video search. The Gx100 100-core chip will draw close to 55 watts of power at maximum performance."
obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
... and just imagine a Beowulf cluster of them.
Re:100? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:100? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is great ! (Score:3, Funny)
But the more important question is...
Will it run Windows 7.
I know, I know, its the wrong questions, but the answer to the other one is always "yes".
hmm... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This is great ! (Score:3, Funny)
Whoa. If you change the source a little, you can enter 1000000 into the Maximum number of CPUs field! Linux is ready for up to a million cores.
640K cores is more than anyone will ever need.
Re:This is great ! (Score:3, Funny)
No you really need 16,711,680 cores. So you have one core for every cell in a standard Excel 2003 sheet (Yea I know 2007 finally gave us more space)
So 65,536 rows by 255 columns. A CPU for each sell processing its own value. Excel may almost run fast.
looks like (Score:4, Funny)
binary (Score:1, Funny)
100-core is binary for quad core.
Dancing Hamsters... (Score:3, Funny)
It is like 100 Dancing Hamsters in your CPU.
Re:This is great ! (Score:3, Funny)
Give it a break, shillboy
We've all seen more than enough paid endorsements of Microsoft's latest exercise in blandness.
Settle down, Linus.