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Intel pledges 80 cores in five years

well this isn't at all surprising, but if intel have a 80 core processor thats slower than single they deserve to be shot multiple times, don't forget technological evolution is basically an exponential increase curve, its just getting faster and faster, so in five years i wouldn't be surprised at all, jesus christ they claim they can have a hyperdrive ready for testing for year 2012, artificial gravity might have been recently discovered, thats how fast technology is progressing to put it into perspective, heck if there hyper-engine works, from steam engines to hyperdrives in <150 years, thats spectacularly impressive :)
 
Most games dont now, this is in 5 years time. If they are to keep up with the market then they must at least quadruple their most powerfull chip's power.

80 cores of various powers sounds about right to me, something like real time ray tracing could use that and maybe that'd make an awesome game :D
 
The problem I can see for games is there will be more cores available than the programmers know what to do with, and we will be sitting here with 128 core processors not wanting the new 160 core chip by Intel, but waiting for the new 96 core cpu by AMD who's cores can do twice as much work as Intel's cores. Just like the ghz war we have had until now :o
 
Vai said:
The problem I can see for games is there will be more cores available than the programmers know what to do with, and we will be sitting here with 128 core processors not wanting the new 160 core chip by Intel, but waiting for the new 96 core cpu by AMD who's cores can do twice as much work as Intel's cores. Just like the ghz war we have had until now :o
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so true, sometimes you feel like tearing your hair out, at the minute unless you game at a mad resolution, most 939 platforms are adequate, yet people still moving on to conroe.
 
the only reason i'm moving onto conroe is because i'm using a 2.6ghz pentium northwood chip in a emachines mini tower pc which has no bios options, no AGP port let alone a pci-e port, only supports pc2100 ram, and has 256mb ram XD.i think its justified for me lol, but tbh if i had a x2 3800+ or a 3700+ san diego, i wouldnt bother upgrading at all apart from gfx. i feel its silly.

as for intel, i think they will eventually run out of insanity and stop making bold comments. its a matter of time. people can only be so crazy for so long XD.
 
this needs a bump.. I don't even remember posting, but that's normal!!! 80 cores? I think not.. barely into double figures lol..
 
In fairness, we do now have 24 core 48 thread CPU's by Intel and 32 core CPU's by AMD, either of which can be put in dual socket or in some cases quad socket workstations. So we do have the means to have a 192 thread workstation sitting on our desks if you have a few tens of thousands going spare! :p
 
I think the advancement of GPU computing killed these small many core processors.

Think about how many stream processors a GPU has.

Even supercomputers these days are actually combining CPU and GPU hardware.
 
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Meh I'll take it :P
 
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