Intel's announces new 50 core, 1 TFLOPS Processor!

[Cyrokrypto]

Enter Intel’s “Knights Corner,” a commercial co-processor based on the company’s MIC architecture and capable of 1 TFLOPS (teraflops) double precision performance. Granted, that’s running software that may have been optimized for Intel microprocessors, notes the company, but okay, 1 teraflops, equivalent to 1 x 10 to the power of 12, or 1 trillion calculations per second.

By comparison, a single Intel i7 processor with six cores can do about 158 GFLOPS or 158 billion calculations per second. Knights Corner—sounds like a chess move, right?—is thus over six times faster than some of the fastest consumer-grade processors available right now.

Saucy

Holy crap, that's like... well its like... :O (Poor AMD)

[Necuno]

Not too sure this cpu is going to be under 10K or around it, if not then "poor amd" is fail as it would be uneconomical for the power users...

[Cyrokrypto]

Not too sure this cpu is going to be under 10K or around it, if not then "poor amd" is fail as it would be uneconomical for the power users...

It probably wont be cheap, but AMD spent so much time on their Bulldozer and it wasn't really anything great... But this thing is pretty damn amazing.

[ChameleonDevil]

Not too sure this cpu is going to be under 10K or around it, if not then "poor amd" is fail as it would be uneconomical for the power users...

This.

First thing that came to mind was that if its that much faster than i7 its going to be alot more expensive too. Amazing cpu though, but Im still VERY happy with my AMD Phenom II x6 1055T.

[simon]

Jeepers. Glad I don't need one of those to play games at the moment.

[HoboMincer]

Oh My Dear God. One of these as a CPU and one of a similar technology in a GFX card and.... I can't even begin to comprehend.

[The Joker]

Epically amazing but expect to pay in the region of 30-40k.

[Ap0calyps3]

Cool, I'll still vouch for the underdog. Time to become a diehard senseless AMD fan-boy

[Cicero]

Yeah it'll be expensive now. But this kind of blue sky development leads to run-offs which should give us kick-ass affordable CPU's in the not so distant future.
Still, 50 cores!!! Thats freaken madness!

[frank007]

I am glad i did not upgrade to the 2011 chip just yet. Will wait for this one lol. Spend R120k on a gaming rig. Wonder if BF3 would use all those cores? loooooooooool!!! Wonder what the wife would do? Probably kick my ass for not getting her that SLK!