It's under development, but if Intel has thier way it will eventually exist.
Hope those coders get cracken' on the dual and quad core optimization, because soon they will really have their work cut out for them!
Defining the Architecture
I should note here that though this technology is something that Intel is currently working on, it is NOT a product in development. It may become one, but Intel has indicated that for now this is all for research purposes only; surely something LIKE this will be seen in the coming years, but it may not have these exact specifications.
ure, we are talking about processors with as many as 100+ cores on them, but what will those cores look like? This slide shows the past (single core processors), present (multi-core processors) and future. These CPUs using 10s-100s of processors will be utilizing something LIKE the current IA (Intel Architecture) but optimized for low power and multithreading communication. They might all share some cache and each have their own local cache, but we are talking smaller amounts than the current 4 MB we are looking at in today’s quad core processors.
These new cores will obviously be single threaded, but will still retain the raw processing power of their single, large core cousins (from years gone by). Think of each having the same 32 Gigaflops performance, running at 4 GHz: if we think of the large core processor having a die size of 21 mm^2 and the new small core taking up a die size of 6mm^2, that is a difference of 1.5 Gigaflops / mm^2 on the large core and 6.4 Gigaflops / mm^2 on the small core. Now you can begin to see how the scale will bring processing power (though simplified instructions power) to a terascale CPU.
Read all about it here courtesy of pcper.com.
-Eric
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