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

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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.
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Holy crap, that's like... well its like... :O (Poor AMD)
 
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...
 
Pr⊕phet said:
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...
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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.
 
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.
 
Pr⊕phet said:
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...
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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.
 
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!
 
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!
 
AMD is planning cheaper processors, because their market is the mid range processor market.

They have 10 core (Macau) and 20 core (Dublin) CPU's (their APU chipsets) in the works - source - and that Intel 50 core won't be cheaper than R20K imo.

AMD is going for a more console-like experience and chipset for PC's. Their APU's also feature a built is graphics processor equivalent to a 6000 GPU - probably the budget range of the GPU series.

The Macau and Dublin chips are for servers, but there is also a Enthusiast processor for desktop gaming in the works on the same technology and it's rumoured to be a 20 core. I'll try to find the source and link it.

But let's get real for a second, if you want to sequence human DNA and decode it, then by all means go for the Intel 50 core, but if you just want to play games, then get your AMD Phenom II x6 or Intel i7.
 
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50 Cores not gonna help the end user. I don't know of any program that currently utilizes more than 4 cores. Hardware is currently running away from programming methods. Where this CPU will have a market is in the specialized simulation and number crunching server field.

A paradigm shift is needed in current programming methodology so that code can dynamically run in parallel.
 
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