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You weren't really expecting an answer were you ?
Intel 'Larrabee' GPU: 16 Cores - 2GHz - 150W - Nvidia Partnership(?)
You weren't really expecting an answer were you ?
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AirRaid
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10005497o-2000331777b,00.htm
Intel Larrabee roadmap -- who says there ain't no Santa Cores?
Posted by Rupert Goodwins
More news is leaking out about Larrabee, Intel's many-core x86
project. According to what Google translates as Hiroshige's Goto
Weekly from Japan, there'll be 24 and 32 core variants out in 2009 and
a 48 core chip in 2010. The 24 core variant may even be the 32 core
version in disguise, as a way to ship useful parts when one or more
cores don't work.
Picking my way carefully through the Googleised Japanese, it appears
that the first product Larrabee may appear in is a PCI Express 2
accelerator card - mostly for graphics, but with plenty of other
options for tasks that like lots of high speed floating point. That's
where most of the x86 instruction set enhancements will come too,
together with specialised parallel control instructions. That makes
for interesting comparisons with IBM's Cell, which has a conventional
Power PC core doing control and housekeeping and entirely incompatible
processor units managing the heavy lifting.
Oh, and please not to be confusing the Larrabee with the Polaris,
Intel's other public many-core chip. Polaris is not x86, it's not
going to be a product, it's a testbed and, aside from having lots of
cores (80, as opposed to Larrabee's 24-48) there's not much
similarity. Polaris uses a cross-switch matrix for core
interconnection, Larrabee a 256-byte-per-cycle ring; Polaris has
stacked memory, Larrabee multiple on-chip DRAM controllers (as far as
I can tell)...
Intel Larrabee roadmap -- who says there ain't no Santa Cores?
Posted by Rupert Goodwins
More news is leaking out about Larrabee, Intel's many-core x86
project. According to what Google translates as Hiroshige's Goto
Weekly from Japan, there'll be 24 and 32 core variants out in 2009 and
a 48 core chip in 2010. The 24 core variant may even be the 32 core
version in disguise, as a way to ship useful parts when one or more
cores don't work.
Picking my way carefully through the Googleised Japanese, it appears
that the first product Larrabee may appear in is a PCI Express 2
accelerator card - mostly for graphics, but with plenty of other
options for tasks that like lots of high speed floating point. That's
where most of the x86 instruction set enhancements will come too,
together with specialised parallel control instructions. That makes
for interesting comparisons with IBM's Cell, which has a conventional
Power PC core doing control and housekeeping and entirely incompatible
processor units managing the heavy lifting.
Oh, and please not to be confusing the Larrabee with the Polaris,
Intel's other public many-core chip. Polaris is not x86, it's not
going to be a product, it's a testbed and, aside from having lots of
cores (80, as opposed to Larrabee's 24-48) there's not much
similarity. Polaris uses a cross-switch matrix for core
interconnection, Larrabee a 256-byte-per-cycle ring; Polaris has
stacked memory, Larrabee multiple on-chip DRAM controllers (as far as
I can tell)...
G
GMAN
My parents who are in their 70's just got a Core 2 Duo system.
My dad wanted a faster PC to encode video for DVD burning.
My 6600 runs at 3.4Ghz nicely thank you. And that is with the stock cooler
G
GMAN
That is so untru nowadays. Ever since dual cpu pc's and os's that were aware
have been out, most serious apps have been multi cpu aware for near a decade.
And even if not, XP is multicpu/core aware and makes use of the tech.
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mr deo
AirRaid said:
When intel leaks something it's more like a cov-ops press release
...32 cores, 24 cores....
Our software will use 1 core, possibly 2
..... still, once we startgetting shedloads of cores then it might be possible to completly flush a
(standard) pc without having to reboot the whole box.......
anyhow.... I'd rather have some 5w core2duo's than some 250w core2^32o's
E
Ed Forsythe
It's not about *need* - It's about *want*. Sales people do a great job of
selling speed and with the plethora of sloppily coded apps out there we want
all the speed we can get. Three years ago who would have thought 1GB would
be the RAM sweet spot? I try to future proof my boxes as much as my wallet
will allow so I'm going for a Quad Core (as soon as the prices drop) ;-)
selling speed and with the plethora of sloppily coded apps out there we want
all the speed we can get. Three years ago who would have thought 1GB would
be the RAM sweet spot? I try to future proof my boxes as much as my wallet
will allow so I'm going for a Quad Core (as soon as the prices drop) ;-)