metatron Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 CEO Paul Otellini held up a silicon wafer with the prototype chips before several thousand attendees at the Intel Developer Forum here 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. Intel uses its twice-yearly conference to educate developers on its long- and short-term plans. Over three days, hardware developers and partners get a chance to interact with Intel employees and take classes on new technologies. Intel's 80-core chips As expected, Intel announced plans to have quad-core processors ready for its customers in November. An extremely fast Core 2 Extreme processor with four cores will be released then, and the newly named Core 2 Quad processor for mainstream desktops will follow in the first quarter of next year, Otellini said. The quad-core server processors are on a similar trajectory, with a faster Xeon 5300 processor scheduled for November and a low-power Xeon slated for the first quarter. Intel's first quad-core processors are actually two of its dual-core Core architecture chips combined into a multichip package. "Performance matters again," Otellini said, disclosing that the quad-core desktop processor will deliver 70 percent faster integer performance than the Core 2 Duo, and the quad-core server processor will be 50 percent faster than the Xeon 5100 introduced in June. Click here to Play One reason performance didn't matter to Intel during the last couple of years was because it was getting trounced on benchmarks at the hands of Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron and Athlon 64 server and desktop processors. That all changed with the introduction of the Core 2 Duo chips this year. "With this new set of dual and quad-core processors, we've regained our leadership," Otellini told developers. The growing Internet video phenomenon, as evidenced by the spectacular rise of Web sites like YouTube, will keep these processors busy during intensive tasks like video editing, he said. Road to Santa Rosa Notebooks will get a face-lift next year with the Santa Rosa platform, which will provide notebooks with new technologies like 802.11n wireless and flash memory. Intel believes that it will be the first to add flash memory to a notebook motherboard, which will improve boot times and reduce power consumption, Otellini said. System power consumption is only one part of the equation. During the next few years, Intel wants to improve the performance per watt of power consumption of its transistors by 300 percent through new manufacturing technologies and designs, Otellini said. The next step on that road, Intel's 45-nanometer manufacturing technology, will enable the company to build chips that deliver a 20 percent improvement in performance with five times less current leakage, he said. But the ultimate goal, as envisioned by Intel's terascale research prototype, is to enable a trillion floating-point operations per second--a teraflop--on a single chip. Ten years ago, the ASCI Red supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories became the first supercomputer to deliver 1 teraflop using 4,510 computing nodes. Intel's prototype uses 80 floating-point cores, each running at 3.16GHz, Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, said in a speech following Otellini's address. In order to move data in between individual cores and into memory, the company plans to use an on-chip interconnect fabric and stacked SRAM (static RAM) chips attached directly to the bottom of the chip, he said. Intel's work on silicon photonics, including its recent announcement of a silicon laser, could help contribute toward the core-to-core connection challenge. Rattner and professor John Bowers of the University of California at Santa Barbara demonstrated Intel's newest breakthrough model of silicon laser, which was constructed using conventional techniques that are better suited to volume manufacturing than older iterations of the laser. Many of the architectural nuances of the 80-core chip can be traced back to earlier research breakthroughs announced at previous IDFs. Connecting chips directly to each other through tiny wires is called Through Silicon Vias, which Intel discussed in 2005. TSV will give the chip an aggregate memory bandwidth of 1 terabyte per second. Intel, meanwhile, began to discuss replacing wires with optical technology in computers and chips in 2001 and has come out with several experimental parts for enabling lasers and optical technology to replace wires. The same year, Intel began to warn about the dangers of heat dissipation in processors. One of the solutions, the company said at the time, lay in producing chips with multiple cores. http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6119618.ht...8&subj=news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 i've got a core 2 duo 6300 and a asus p5w dh deluxe... not overclocked at all... and they get pretty damn hot. expect an 80 core processor to come with some extreme new cooling technology! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 I really hope the optronics stuff kicks off soon, not much more we can do with silicon really. Unless they start using electron tunneling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garda Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 WOW! 80 cores, that will run minesweeper really, really, really fast can't wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 80 cores just seems ridiculous at the moment. Why develop silicon technology so far and not start developing a new medium of data crunching that will out perform silicon like night and day? Like VaKo said, when’s something else that’s still on paper, yet to be built, going to be débuted for consumers in the future? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 AMD! AMD! AMD! AMD! </rant> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 80 core will be nice... but will windows suport it? Probably not, and you will have to recompile yourLinux kernel to get it to run on all 80 cores ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 WOW! 80 cores, that will run minesweeper really, really, really fastcan't wait Sorry, not yet. Minesweeper isn't SMP enabled. You can however run 80 Minesweepers at exactly the same time really fast though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 80 core will be nice... but will windows suport it? Probably not, and you will have to recompile yourLinux kernel to get it to run on all 80 cores ;) Oh noes! Windows doesn't support experimental hardware thats 5 years away from being production ready! It must be crap then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 Ya, it must be crap!!!! Oh, wait... /mumbles "nevermind" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 AMD! AMD! AMD! AMD!</rant> Hahaha, I was thinking the same thing while reading the article. AMD ftw in my mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Ehh... from the K6-2 onwards I was an AMD man but recently I've gone kinda neutral about the whole thing... Intel seem to be getting ahead again and while AMD will probably catch up again just like always but it makes little sense to tie yourself to a brand just on the name... If Intel make the better product I say use it but I'm still happy with my AMD for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest K1u Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 LIES LIES ALL LIES FUCK YEAH AMD 4 LIFE BITCHES AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD AMD LoL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 W .. T .. F .. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 If Intel pledges 80 cores... you know AMD is going to pledge 40 cores as 2/3 the price ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emilml Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 It would be nice to have a 80 core machine, but it would need some good support from the software site now we just need some more good ram :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 It would be nice to have a 80 core machine, but it would need some good support from the software sitenow we just need some more good ram :D Any body up for 16 channle RAM? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emilml Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 Now thats the way togo ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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