Intel demonstrates 80-core processor

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Kenban @ Feb 11th 2007 7:45PM

Not quite sure what the point to this chip is right now but I have a feeling on what something like it could be used for in the future. As it says in the article "The computing elements are very basic and do not use the x86 instruction set used by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices' chips, which means Windows Vista can't be run on the research chip. Instead, the chip uses a VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture, a simpler approach to computing than the x86 instruction set."

When I see chips like this and the Cell two things come to mind supercomputers and graphics. With graphics cards and Direct X moving to being programmable I expect we are going to start seeing GPU's which use a lot of cores instead of the current setup. Supercomputers don't need to have a huge instruction set or anything really complex normally they just need the ability to do a lot of calculations quickly simple cores like this would be perfect for the job.

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