Posted on 10/01/2009 9:17:53 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The graph below is one of transistor count, not die size. Inevitably, on the same manufacturing process, a significantly higher transistor count translates into a larger die size. But for the purposes of this article, all I need to show you is a representation of transistor count.
See that big circle on the right? That's Fermi. NVIDIA's next-generation architecture.
NVIDIA astonished us with GT200 tipping the scales at 1.4 billion transistors. Fermi is more than twice that at 3 billion. And literally, that's what Fermi is - more than twice a GT200.
At the high level the specs are simple. Fermi has a 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface and 512 cores. That's more than twice the processing power of GT200 but, just like RV870 (Cypress), it's not twice the memory bandwidth.
(Excerpt) Read more at anandtech.com ...
Intel’s Core i9 will be 32nm size and 6 cores. It will be followed by a 22nm 8 core chip in 2011 (ivybridge). I have no idea how many billions of transistors they will contain.
Some people claim that not only will moore’s law continue to hold true, progress will actually accelerate. It is predicted by some that a “technology singularity” will occur in the year 2045.
A technology singularity is the point at which technological advances reach a rate of infinity. This will be the day that carbon based life is obsolete. Because the rate of acceleration is increasing, it will happen in the blink of an eye.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6umxthz1Ys&feature=related
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See above posts....
yes? What am I supposed to be looking at? what do you want me to see?
And a video on this new product for the High Performance Computing market >:see link at #23 then click on graphic above this:
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SUPERCOMPUTING PERFORMANCE – Revolutionary CUDA Architecture – 960 cores. Massively parallel processing – 250x the compute performance of a PC
Guide to Building Your Own Tesla Personal Supercomputer System
thanks, bfl
LOL!
pwned.
Reminds me of this cartoon: Vacuum Cleaner Meets the Fan
I don’t think all those cores are on a single CPU. It’s multiple cpus.
It is a single very large chip...and they are having trouble with the yield....see link at #32...and then post #3 on that thread. .
Man. I tried watching that, but couldn’t stand the guy talking.
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