Intel Demos Working System Based on 48-Core Chip.

Xbit Labs ^ | [05/21/2010 04:45 AM] | Anton Shilov

[JRandomFreeper]

What is the size of the power supply to run the desktop.

The writer was going to ask, but the gas turbine generator was so loud his question couldn't be heard.

/johnny

[Sir_Ed]

Hopefully it’ll come in a refreshed Mac Pro...I have two G5’s, one a Quad, and they’re getting creaky and old!

Ed

[Calamari]

Get the power consumption under control--lower-- and be able to produce the chips in a production wafer fabrication area and price it at the current price of an Intel i7 processor--$279.99 and you can put it in any PC you want. It would probably be a smokin' hot game machine.

It doesn't have to be practical just needs people willing to buy one.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It is surprising that Hollywood hasn’t figured out how to take The Forbin Project and Wargames, suck all the life and excitement out of them, and try to ruin both movies. Maybe with a Man Made Global Warming theme, or some crap like that.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

PDF:

The Single-chip Cloud Computer

[PA Engineer]

The system appears to look like just an ordinary personal computer and seems to operate flawlessly.

I'm still looking for the 17 UHF hub connectors on mine.

[AussieJoe]

“The system appears to look like just an ordinary personal computer and seems to operate flawlessly.”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!

Because ordinary PCs operate flawlessly.... the author must still use a mechanical typewriter.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well,...meanwhile from another backroom last Sept we have this:

IBM Announces Industry's Densest, Fastest On-Chip Dynamic Memory in 32-Nanometer, Silicon-on-Insulator Technology

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Enables improved speed, power savings and reliability for business, mobile, consumer and game applications

IBM has fabricated a test chip with an embedded dynamic random access memory (eDRAM) technology that features the industry's smallest memory cell, and offers density, speed and capacity better than conventional on-chip static random access memory (SRAM) announced in 32nm and 22nm technology, and comparable to what would be expected of an SRAM produced in 15-nanometer technology - three technology generations ahead of chips in volume production today.

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IBM already is engaged with early access foundry clients in 32nm technology and ARM is developing design libraries for the technology. An initial 32nm ARM library is available now and IBM has extended this collaboration to include 22nm SOI technology, enabling ARM to gain early access to this technology. This represents the two companies' commitment to align early on process technology, design rules, design library and cores for next-generation SOI technology.  

"We are making this 32nm offering available to clients who are ready to benefit from the significant performance and power advantages of this seventh generation of IBM SOI technology," said Gary Patton, vice president for IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center. "The industry-leading, dense embedded memory, and our design library agreement with ARM, underscore our ability to provide clients with a market edge and a clear progression path to 32nm and 22nm SOI technology nodes." 

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

As people on this thread have already implied, the trend is going to be to move more processing power into the cloud. A laptop is unlikely to be able to use a chip like this for any number of reasons. A datacenter computer will undoubtedly be built that can. Cloud computing is inherently more parallel than desktop of laptop computing. As we move to massive numbers of cores on a chip, technology is going to push more of the computing tasks into the cloud. This will probably play out over 10 years or so.