Intel Shows 48-Core x86 Processor 366
Vigile writes "Intel unveiled a completely new processor design today the company is dubbing the 'Single-chip Cloud Computer' (but was previously codenamed Bangalore). Justin Rattner, the company's CTO, discussed the new product at a press event in Santa Clara and revealed some interesting information about the goals and design of the new CPU. While terascale processing has been discussed for some time, this new CPU is the first to integrate full IA x86 cores rather than simple floating point units. The 48 cores are set 2 to a 'tile' and each tile communicates with others via a 2D mesh network capable of 256 GB/s rather than a large cache structure. "
Re:Code Name is Offensive (Score:4, Funny)
Intel an American company, with the American economy in the shape it's in, I am offended at the codename Bangalore.
As the last remaining operational Soong type android, I am offended by the name Bang-A-Lore.
Re:Code Name is Offensive (Score:5, Funny)
> This post is copyrighted by Robert Nelson for the private use of his audience. Any other use of this post or of any pict
Your sigfile is offensive. What have ye got against the Scots?
Re:Advantages over just adding more FPUs? (Score:2, Funny)
Only 48? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Code Name is Offensive (Score:2, Funny)
What have ye got against the Scots?
Damn Scots!
They ruined Scotland!
Re:Code Name is Offensive (Score:3, Funny)
Does the fact that none* of the Apple Operating system names are of animals not native to America?
*After 5.1, which is "Kodiak" - which can be found in Alaska.
5.2 Mac OS X v10.0 "Cheetah"
5.3 Mac OS X v10.1 "Puma"
5.4 Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar"
5.5 Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther"
5.6 Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger"
5.7 Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard"
5.8 Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard
Great cost savings (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Code Name is Offensive (Score:1, Funny)
With a code name like "Bangalore", I would expect it to be a RISC based CPU that's very slow, requires instructions to be repeated and confirmed, and late to service any interrupts.
Re:Meh. I'm holding out for a kilocore. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Codenames (Score:4, Funny)
Synergy! (Score:5, Funny)
This new Cloud processor should create synergies with my SOA Portal system and allow me to deploy Enterprise B2B Push based Web 2.0 technologies!
Re:Yet another cloud? (Score:5, Funny)
Why can't it just be cloudy?
sorry.
Re:So ... (Score:3, Funny)
All of them except windows.
Re:Code Name is Offensive (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory "Fixed that for you" (Score:3, Funny)
There, fixed that for you.
Re:Code Name is Offensive (Score:5, Funny)
That was an offshoot technology. They've finally got all the bugs ironed out and the CPU is much less prone to "uncontrolled exothermic reactions" then it use to be.
Re:Code Name is Offensive (Score:2, Funny)
As in The Big Bang Theory season 3 episode 4: "I don't want to go to India. It's hot and loud and there's so many people. You have no idea, they're everywhere."
Re:Codenames (Score:3, Funny)
There, fixed that for you.
Mummy? (Score:3, Funny)
Insightful WTF? If you get offended that easily, you'd better:
Mummy?
Are you my mummy?
Mummm-myyy...
Re:Code Name is Offensive (Score:3, Funny)
I refuse to call a Mountain Lion a Puma.
Just don't call a Warthog a Puma. Sarge doesn't like that.
Re:Yet another cloud? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't have the foggiest idea.
The only way it could have been called "Bangalore" (Score:1, Funny)
Is if some of the cores are only allowed to perform menial tasks (they were born that way) and the rest of the cores will only do something if you slip them a little cash. Oh, and code with comments doesn't run.
Re:Great cost savings (Score:3, Funny)
This is an Intel chip we are talking about here... you can just round off that result ;)
Re:Yet another cloud? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Codenames (Score:3, Funny)
> They called it Bangalore because they are going to farm out your processes.
To Maine..??
(Oh, sorry, that's Bangor. My bad!)
Uh, no. That's Bang-ah, Maine. Bangor is a Myth.
Re:Meh. I'm holding out for a kilocore. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:48 is sufficient for most Ph.D. dissertations. (Score:5, Funny)
Word gets pretty slow when you hit a hundred pages with figures on a Core Duo, but you could always just use LaTeX or a file per chapter. I managed to get my dissertation done with just two cores and my parents managed with a typewriter (although those were masters, not PhDs).
Re:Yet another cloud? (Score:3, Funny)