80 Cores in 5 Years says Intel
Intel has pledged to have a CPU with 80 cores on it within 5 years and has a prototype to prove it. Intel showed off the CPU wafer at IDF which contains 80 teraflop chips which reportedly can process 1 trillion floating point operations per second. Now Moore's Law states that the number of transistors that can fit on a single IC will double every 18 months. This kind of a claim from Intel would most certainly test the boundaries and limits of that theory.
CEO Paul Otellini held up a silicon wafer with the prototype chips before several thousand attendees at the Intel Developer Forum here on Tuesday. The chips are capable of exchanging data at a terabyte a second, Otellini said during a keynote speech. The company hopes to have these chips ready for commercial production within a five-year window.
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