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As part of its Tera-scale Computing Research Program, Intel is planning on offering certain top-notch universities around the world, engineering samples of a processor boasting no less than 48 cores - four times more than AMD's new Opteron 6100 chips. The multi-core CPU developed by Intel is set to be delivered to researchers by the end of this quarter and will help them get accustomed with a new type of architecture that could be used, in the somewhat distant future, to power everything from small mobile devices to server farms.
Showcased late last year, the 48-core processor aka single-chip cloud computer (SCC) runs at Atom speeds (1.66 GHz to 1.83 GHz), has a TDP between 25W up to 125W, includes 24 routers for inter-core communication, and boasts four DDR3 memory channels. Intel has announced its intention to build chips with 100 or more cores on-die so this is just one step in the many-core movement.
Showcased late last year, the 48-core processor aka single-chip cloud computer (SCC) runs at Atom speeds (1.66 GHz to 1.83 GHz), has a TDP between 25W up to 125W, includes 24 routers for inter-core communication, and boasts four DDR3 memory channels. Intel has announced its intention to build chips with 100 or more cores on-die so this is just one step in the many-core movement.
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