Intel’s been evolving and experimenting this chip for quite some time. Now it is ready for shipping across some academic institutes which are looking for more processing power that Intel’s hexacore chips are providing right now.
Though, these are said to be only for academic institutes, they might as well find a way to enter in commercial world and by the end of 2010 or 1st quarter of 2011, we might as well have a chance to work on it.
Some features include:
1. 48-core chip offers 24 small routers between the cores, means there will be faster exchange of data across the chip. This leads to a conclusion that hyper-threading and parallel computing will definitely find this chip more useful and stable than previous chips.
2. Data can also be exchanged in parallel across all the cores because each core features on-chip buffers. As I said above, this helps in parallel computing and in simple terms, this will help us to work on several applications simultaneously.
3. Power management is the most important feature of this 48-core chip. Power consumption can vary between 25watts to 125watts depending upon the load of applications. Intel says that these chips feature advanced power management and the chip can lower clock speed and shutdown cores according to applications.’It’s like turbo-boost technology has taken a next step.’
4. Clock speeds are in the neighborhood of Atom CPU, i.e. around 1.2 to 1.83. Intel stated that these experimental chips are meant to be cooler and smaller, yet faster and stable.
Thanks for being a part of this article.
Note: – Necessary reference taken from TomsHardware.com
About kksonakiya
Join The Discussion