Intel: 80 Cores by 2011
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by Mike Zazaian September 26, 2006 - 2:16pm, 65 Comments
Intel CEO Paul Otellini demonstrated the 80-core behemoth at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday. According to Otellini, the chip is capable of transferring a terabyte of data per second. As Intel’s powerful Core 2 Duo chip is able to trasfer only 1.66 gigabytes of data per second, the proposed 80-core chip would represent a several hundred fold increase over the performance in today’s processors.
Otellini also confirmed the release of the upcoming Quad-core processors at the conference, with the 2.66 Ghz Core 2 Extreme being released in November at a stanard $1,000 US. Core 2 Quadro, the mainstream version of the processor, will be released in Q1 2007 with a clock speed of a respectable 2.4Ghz.
While information of the quad-core chips was already known, it’s always nice to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth. Especially if the horse is holding several 80-core processors in his hands.
[via cnet]
AMD better pick it up, or I won’t be purchasing anything AMD anymore…
ShuttleXpC
sweeet, can’t wait for the 5,000 core computer. Then we could get down with some real virtual reality
z
humm AMD will have a come back on this soon
Junky - Portugal
sad to say but AMD have gone down the drain. this does look very exciting tbh!
Ross_uk
LOL damn that’s gona be one huge ass CPU if they plan on squeezing 80 core into one CPU. Can you imagine the power consumption and heat output level.
Sacthu
Intel cpus already run pretty hot. Think of cooling 80cores in your room. Unless you like to live in very cold temperature controlled rooms you wouldnt want a beast like that no matter how fast.
JT
core 2 duo takes less power than many older models.
no way
I dont really see the point right now, at the moment there isnt alot of things that can benefit from even dual core and and there already talking about 80?????? they have to slow down …no one needs all that power right now. Quad core is nearly out and dual core has only been out a year or so, when will they give it a break … OH and AMD all the way, im no traitor! LOL
magic
Ok, first of all.. amd won’t have to catch up on anything… this 80 core processor, although impressive isn’t the next big thing =/…. first of all… it is going to cost way to much for the civilian section and companies are not going to waste time redesigning there machines.. JUST TO FIT THIS GIANT THING. XD. i am going to take a guess and say that this thing will be hot and require certian conditions to maintain it =/ the only thing that would even need 80 cores would be servers =/ it would be a waste on an average computer. Besides, some of the most powerful computers already have 160 if i remember properly and clock in the teraflops *stupid name i know* i dunno… i really think that intel has wasted their time here.. its like… making a 100 metre bridge.. to cross a 5 metre gap =/
Yukaze
does this thing double as a frizbie?
Glen
It is time for innovation in processor design, not more of the same. Look at STI cell processor with 8 to 20 times the computing power of the Core Duo. This is a joke… think about the power required to run that thing. Can we say sub- station on every corner. Not to mention the cryo room needed to keep it cool.
Being nice to intel let’s see 55Watts per processor taken 80 times 4.4kW…. Time to invest in a serious Power supply company.
Can this be for real
Looks fake
lol hopw he doesnt drop it, he’d be screwed!!! hehe
Skmonio
Have fun trying to design a Motherboard to support this thing, nevermind a motherboard that will hold 2. 160 cores, dear lord.
Rotten Kid
Hey i remember seeing something like that!? AWW yes it was last saturday in the club. The same contraption that was hanging on the ceiling. Those things can emit LIGHT!!!
awell remember folks, its predicted for 2011. The year most Movies imagined to be like I Robot and minority report. Who knows , maybe the 80 core edition will be a low-end processor by then.
Diggy Dave
I just couldn’t sit by and let this thread continue. It’s clear that many people seem to think that the large round silicon wafer that Paul Otellini is holding is one 80-core CPU. NO! He is holding a wafer that contains what looks like about 60 or so rectangular 80-core processors. You won’t need a rediculously large case or cooling system! This chip does appear to be larger than current dual core chips, but not much bigger…
For more info, go look up Photolithography in wikipedia.
-Valkyrie-MT
Valkyrie-MT
So if he pledges a 80 core chip by 2011, does mean a 16 core chip by 2008? what about a 32 core?
Also:
80 Core, 1000 Core, infinity core, Windows still STINKS.
Rotten Kid
Thanks Valkyrie. that shut those dummies up.
kim
Hey guys, if you recall….the first computers were massive supercomputer’s that looked like massive wastes of metal and silicon….
the “80-core” wafer he holds in his hand is today’s successful creation of 80-cores….what he means is that by 2011 he plans for that thing to be fourth the size and take as much power as the current core 2 duos…..kinda how most people would have thought personal computers were absurd when supercomputers were first built…..my ti-89 is faster than the first massive computer lol
Aaron
whoever thought that wafer was a single processor is stupid.
some random 16 year old
That still isn’t nearly enough computing power to run basic DIAL LIDAR systems. You’d need a few hundred of these babies to check one frequency sweep for atmospheric constituents with the basic systems designed right now. It’ll be a decade or more before real time scanning computations will be done. Keep up the good work, there is a long way to go.
Foton
It is a valid question what amount of power is required for operating this 80-core CPU. Still I would say it is a nice thing. Intel keep it up!
usman_exc
some companies a wile ago said 8k of ram is pushing it, “who will need more than 8k or ram” or somthing like that, who knows what we will need in the future. and plus, intel just moved to 65nm technology os didnt they, so they dont need as much power. earlyer it was 90nm technology, soon i think it will be 45, then like 20ish, then 5nm then 1nm so i think think it is good that they are doing this stuff…..and why not…so what does it matter what they do with there time, and only good can come out doing this .some of u guys say they are waisting therer time? imagin if the people like 20 years ago stoped making advancments cuz people told them they were waisting there time. i think intel and Amd perhaps should work on making them better atusing there multiple cores more efficantly so there is no waisted “computing power” Jeff C
jeff c
and it sais he is holding several 80-core processors in his hands….dont just look at the picture read it.
jeff c
You won’t get processes down to 1nm as this is now comparable in size to an actual atom - you can’t have different types of silicon with only a couple (literally) of atoms. Also, as size goes down the transistor behaves more and more in the quantum realm, and quantum effects (eg tunneling) become significant and lead to uncertain operation, and hence errors in the device
Chris
no point in 80 core. Even Dual Core don’t give 100% increase in performance. A Pentium running at 3 GHz can easily beat a Dual Core running at 2.4 GHz. WHY? All processing is ’stuck’ and these cores share the same system bus and memory bandwidth limits the real-world performance advantage.
Xeno
The 80 core CPU takes only about 100W at 3.4GHz.
At that speed it gives ca. 1 Terra FLOPS.
Not bad.
deBug
Well Multicore applications are more and more avalible and windows takes advantage of multicores now. yes on raw performance a 3gHz chip will beat two cores running slower, but if you do test running two high end programs at once then the more cores to better, windows has good task management along with linux, but still for gaming raw speed is better intill they produce mutitreaded games, such as supreame commander.
Servers can take advantage of muti cores over desktops, still as actual speed is harder to gain due to physical restraints, then more is better.
Yes new more effecent cores should be developed too, but im all for muticore, and the more the better.
As for future, proccessors will be quantium, when? i cant say but many universitys have made electron traps “Greenwich” for example have. So you think about that, its very basic at the moment but once you’ve got a new technology ’sussed’ then only performace comes next, you may see quantium cores appear before intels 80 core chip, but it wont be implimented for years into desktops afterwards.
Chris Jenkins
i doubt it will succed, intel once promised 4GHz cpus in 2002, and if it does come out it will probably be like the original pentium 4, with tons of flaws, and even if they make an 80 core cpu, amd will either make something better after it fails, or it will never come out and if it does ill still buy amd cause intel is full of greedy pigs that bribe companies to use intel, thats the main reason intel is a monopoly, amd might even beet them too it, amd released the worlds first 1GHz cpu so, if intel does succedd it will be after amd, and if amd comes before intel, intel will rush it out like the original p4 and it will be rushed into production and there will be flaws.
Superchad
I’m afraid about where we are going but still enthusiastic. I mean… (Readed from somewhere) Already the computers have the power of human brain and 80 cores is like 80 brains. Although processors are so much more simple than brains.
Sometimes it freak me out to think that my pc have more calculating power than my own head.
Well enyway. I can’t stop the progress and sometimes I wish there was even more power in my pc. To be more specific, I create 3d models and render them. When using one thread, I render basic scene in 20s. When using two threads, I render a scene in 10s. It’s 100% more rendering power. Just think about what it would take from 80 cores. Like 0,5s. And if rendering a really complex scene with one processor in 24h, It would take from 80 processors a 20-40min. I definitely want one of those if/when the price drops below 400€
Niko40
computers are a loooooooooooooong way away from having the power of the human brain. the processes involved with sight alone are staggering compared to what todays supercomputers could ever do. just to do what the brain does hundreds of millions of times per second that enable you to see would take the worlds most powerful supercomputers hundreds of millions/billions of years just to do once. thats just sight. now factor in everything else that your brain does every second. keeping your heart rate steady, movement, hearing i could go on for hours. supercomputers may be able to perform complex math equations faster than the human brain but give it a theoritical equation and watch it shrivel up and die.
now to the person who said 1nm is the size of an atom. nanometers are expressed as 1.0 x 10-9 (ten to the negative ninth). the size of an electron is 1.0 x 10-18 (ten to the negative eightteenth). less than 1 nm is possible.
Drummer
AMD’s Answer to Intel’s 80 core Processor Prototype.
www.betanews.com/article/AMD_R.....1172789746
or www.pclaunches.com/processors/.....trated.php
or
www.digg.com/tech_news/AMD_s_T.....monstrated
AMD has a solution at present.
SKJ
Wow! who here actually thinks that the wafer he is holding is the 80-core proc? and better yet that the wafer is a working/defect free model? Hrmmm bare hands and no clean room…
As we may not need 80-cores in the office to check outlook, others might. Like for example computation cycles for the LHC (large hadron collider) or astrophysics, even meterology. Intel could help to make technologies like this inexpensive and widely available to researchers/scientists who don’t have the best R&D budget. Meaning you don’t have to work at the LHC (or other big money research facilities) to make contributions to science.
Anon
I think over time they will compress it, but they will probably have to develop some sort of ultra quiet freezer to cool that. But oh how progress is great, imagine us saying to our grand kids “we used single sores back in the day”
Yoster
holy shit
ec
Yeah, holy shit.. this has to be one of the most ridiculous threads I’ve had the misfortune to uncover in a Google search.
The one or two people who had something worth-while to say, were completely drown-out by mindless blabber.
I love the part where the one moron says something about Windows sucking.. and then another moron remarks about not using 100% of the multi-core feature, with modern software, as if he does anything but stroke himself and look at titty-sites all day long.
That at least, was worth the otherwise completely wasted time.
..but gee golly, that processor is pretty huge; I wonder if it can run Windows ME.
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lnykeph flyin
The point is this: the 80 core wafer he is holding now will be scaled down to the size of a normal 1″ x 1″ processor within the next 5 years.
Jeffro
Even though it might not suit us, it is good for supercomputers.
BTW, having as many as 80 cores does not always mean an increase of speed of the same degree. It could be using cheaper and low performance cores to achieve an increase of performance of e.g. 10 times yet leaving the whole thing non-expensive… I think. The bite might just be the bridging of those cores.
Dummy
actually everyone, this chip is only a prototype to prove that it was possible to acieve such a feat as this (a terabyte per sec flop) which hasn’t been done sine 1996 when it took 10000 pentium D processors and 2000sqft. the 80 core actually only consumes 62watts of power as a whole. im an electrical engineering student, and one of my professors is involved with intel research, and i’ll tell you, some of the things that they have and are forming prototypes of over there at Intel just blow your mind.
Nate
Frequency Voltage Power Aggregate Bandwidth Performance
3.16 GHz 0.95 V 62W 1.62 Terabits/s 1.01 Teraflops
5.1 GHz 1.2 V 175W 2.61 Terabits/s 1.63 Teraflops
5.7 GHz 1.35 V 265W 2.92 Terabits/s 1.81 Teraflops
http://www.intel.com/research/.....aflops.htm
Nate
I just hope they don’t create a blackhole when they end up surpassing 1 petaflops. Which is roughly what a human brain can do.
yutengi
NO words can define a nice privent like this
dishara
Man I hope AMD have something to challenge Intel. So our chip could be cheaper. I DON’T WANTS A MONOPOLY!!
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intel 80 core ditiles
chinthaka
AMD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol
damn all these beautiful gir. Essa Morty.
Essa Morty
AMD are for FAGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
woot
when you say it’s ove. Joey Hadassah.
Joey Hadassah
What’s with people saying speed is pointless???? I say more! but that’s only becuase i’m a 3D modeller I guess and as far as that goes the more polygons and the more detailed textures your PC can handle without ozzing molten CPU out of its ports the better.
The KC - Don't bag my awesome E-mail adress
the futures not looking good for amd .ibm has a computer for research that has 186,000 cores and 23 terabytes of memory hahahah.I wish I had that
donutman
This Thing is a MONSTER.
But then again, like ever piece of technology, give it 2 years, and it will be the size of something tiny and redicuoulously powerful.
like the whole cell phone watch thing.
Keep it up intel. doing a great job.
as for me.. ill stick with my Pentiums. all of em.
i have as far back as pentium 1, and even greenwoods.(before pentium.)
:)
in 50 years, well watch our grandkids play games on these processors, and cry.. and say, its not fair..
Rob
THE ROUND THING HE IS HOLDING IS NOT AN 80 CORE PROCESSOR. IT IS MULTIPLE 80 CORE PROCESSORS. EACH ONE IS LESS THAN AN INCH SQUARED.
right, sorry for the caps lock but my god there are some seriously mentally challenged people here. anyway. this is cool and it is the future, software manufacturers are being forced to adapt which is a good thing. im sure it wont be more than 10 years before most programs are completely threaded
yermah
Whether that is a single 80-core proc or a bunch of them, it doesn’t matter. Such a thing won’t be available to individual consumers for a while, I’m sure. This thing is more like something that might be used in a supercomputer to speed up calculations greatly. I wonder if one of the future supercomputers will give an answer of 42 when the right question is asked…
rpgfan3233
i know this sounds dumb, but if Intel are doing so great a job on hardware, why don’t they venture into software too? only the creator can know the full capabilities of his creations. the world shouldn’t suffer in the hands of Vista ever again…
jeebus
This reminds me of the excitement over a 244mhz processor, back in the day. Just change some of the wording here and you have the same responses.
Our computers are still primitive and we remain in the stone age of the industry. Once we learn how to use photons to store data, we will be out of the stone age.
Troglobyte
This reminds me of the excitement over a 244mhz processor, back in the day. Just change some of the wording here and you have the same responses.
Our computers are still primitive and we remain in the stone age of the industry. Once we learn how to use photons to store data, we will be out of the stone age.
Troglobyte
This kind of processing technology was achived in 1996 by theASCII Red. The difference is that it used 1000kW of power, compared to the 65W that this will use.
Brandon
It’s not hard for intel to sqeeze 80 cores on a CPU. These cores are very simple execution units, and dont take up much space. I bet it will be used for 3D graphics and SIMD.
I bet that AMD/ATI already has a processor ready to compete with the 80 core, but I think AMD will not have 80 cores. I think AMD will take a different route where it will use ATI’s GPU technology in it’s next generation CPU’s
ADXB
HI! please give us 10,000 core processor soon.
we cant wait for a long.
vishnani rajesh
HI! WE WANT 10,000 CORE PROCESSOR SOON.
WE CANT WAIT FOR A LONG.
vishnani rajesh
I HAD to comment once I found this, LOL….Moores law caps the limit at nanomolecular level which in turn shifts the goal from density/thermal effects to (as previously mentioned) quantum effects (tunneling/spin). We are at the edge of a new realm of computing and as soon as the LHC fires up we will all have non volatile R.O.M. (bye bye hdd’s!!), supplementary, todays interconnect of ‘wiring’ busses together will look antiquated once the optical bus technology is integrated into the next generation of I’c’s…..
Neltek
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rory toner
Intel pwns amd by 76 cores..
sucks to be an AMD fanboy.
Intel pwns