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Intel to go 8-way, 12-way multicore soon, says report

April 26, 2007 | | 199201692
Intel Corp. does not appear to be letting up on plans to move quickly to large-scale parallel processing, even though with its current processor architecture it may have to choose applications with care, so that they can benefit from that parallelism.
LONDON — Intel Corp. does not appear to be letting up on plans to move quickly to large-scale parallel processing, even though with its current processor architecture it may have to choose applications with care, so that they can benefit from that parallelism.

Intel is already shipping quad-core chips and silicon with 8,12 and more processor cores would arrive soon, according to Jerry Battista, Intel;s director of technology management, who was speaking at a Gartner IT event according to Information Week article. Intel is known to be grappling with mid-range parallelism in the lab in the form of its 80-core, "Polaris" teraflop chip, which it presented at the International Solid States Circuit Conference (ISSCC) in February.

At the Gartner Battista showed applications that could make use of the parallelism, and not become choked on communications and data dependencies between processors. These included a sports highlight generator that can automatically take a two-hour soccer game and condense it into 10 to 15 minutes of highlights and ray-trace rendering for animated movies done in real-time, the report said.









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