Intel Pledges 80 Cores in Five Years

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Sep 2006 13:57 UTC, submitted by Jasen Bulio

Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating-point operations per second. 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.

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