I know that most of you are familiar with Core-2-duo or Core-2-Quad CPU’s from your computer. It means a double CPU with two or four cores. But Intel challenged itself and produced a CPU with 48 cores in a single chip. You can think of cores as tiny brains in computers. Of course they are not for personal computers. This 48 cored-processor is designed with Cloud Computing in mind; those systems that allow you to maintain your data in the web’s virtual ‘cloud’ so that its accessible and secure wherever you need it… similar if not identical to the way mail2web Mobile Email offers your Exchange email, contacts and calendar access anywhere.
It consists of 1.3 billion transistor processors and can run with standard x86 software. So far, it has successfully booted Windows and Linux during demonstrations. It is energy conservative, too as the 48-core chip operates on as little as 25 watts, in maximum performance 125 watts. It was designed by 40 researchers. Intel made its first microprocessor in 1971 and it had about 2,300 transistors.
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I saw a documentary on how they make these and it blew my mind. Almost all robotic!
is 48 still the premium?
I think 48 is still the premium for this bad-ass “Single-chip Cloud Computer.”