Intel starts shipping 48 core CPUs

[taltamir]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...8_Core_Processors_to_Select_Institutions.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/ff_intc_201005.html

That took me by surprise...
Those are really slow cores though, its meant more as a research chip, but intel is still shipping it to "select institutions"

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Ah, putting it into the test field, nice

 

[Idontcare]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2077413

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

party pooper

 

[tweakboy]

LOL sorry btry b 539th ...

This prototype is just that, a prototype. Its going to take years many years to be available to consumers. Ive heard 2014 to 2020

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

sigh

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Larrabee Lives!

 

[nyker96]

it;s just a research vehicle for testing multi-threaded softwares not a commercial product.

 

[BD231]

A gift for you, your very own FPU'less abomination

 

[taltamir]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2077413

i remember the demo... I never expected them to actually ship them. They might be limiting the institutions which can receive them, but they are building working 48 machines and giving them to companies outside intel...

granted, those are 48 larabee/atom/pentium1 class machines.

 

[cbn]

Hasn't Intel talked about developing large many-core designs running low voltage before?

I think IDC at one time linked me to such an article somewhere in the Bulldozer discussion thread.

 

[taltamir]

Hasn't Intel talked about developing large many-core designs running low voltage before?

I think IDC at one time linked me to such an article somewhere in the Bulldozer discussion thread.

they have indeed mentioned that... now that I think about it, didn't intel say that "larabbe is not dead, its just shifting focus to the HTC market" or some such?
and now they do this.

Larrabee Lives!

you know, that is a good point.
Isn't this basically 48 larrabee/atom/pentium1 type cores?

 

[taltamir]

delete

 

[PCTC2]

It looks like it'd be perfect for cloud farms because it points out that you can run an OS per core pretty much. Having a density of 48 virtualized systems per host would be nice. It's exactly what Intel called it. "Single-Chip Cloud". I'd like to see it make it to the market for Colo/Cloud business models.