Re: 4, 6, 8, or 80 cores?


Neil Rieck wrote:
Intel unleashes Quad Core at IDF Fall 2006
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=330

So while I was contemplating the future of Moore's law wondering if the next
generation would be 6 or 8 cores, I stumbled across this article about 80
cores in five years.

Intel pledges 80 cores in five years
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6119618.html

So isn't this growth faster than Moore's law which is only supposed to
double every 18 months?

Depends what the cores are. In this case they are floating point units
so Intel have reduced the size of the problem and therefor made it more
possible to acheive. Clearly 80 cores which have integer, fpu, mmu,
cache, etc are going to be much larger.


0 2006 =4
1 2007 =8
2 2008 =16
3 2009 =32
4 2010 =64
5 2011 =128

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/

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