Core 80 Duo
 

On Slashdot there is a link to [URL="http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6119618.html?part=rss&tag=6119618&subj=news"]http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6119618.html?part=rss&tag=6119618&subj=news[/URL] about an 80 core chip. Seems like we have to write off our new Core 2 Duo chips in just a few years. Like we are used to.

Incredible!

[QUOTE='news.com']But the ultimate goal, as envisioned by Intel's terascale research prototype, is to enable a trillion floating-point operations per second--a teraflop--on a single chip. Ten years ago, the ASCI Red supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories became the first supercomputer to deliver 1 teraflop using 4,510 computing nodes.

Intel's prototype uses 80 floating-point cores, each running at 3.16GHz, Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, said in a speech following Otellini's address.[/QUOTE]

1000 of these chips, and GIMPS would have petaflop computing power...

I wonder if that is really realistic though...

Actually the correct name would be "Core 2 Octaconta". Sorry about that.

[QUOTE]Actually the correct name would be "Core 2 Octaconta". Sorry about that.[/QUOTE]Hehe, I'm sorry also, but the "Core 2" part might also be a little misleading. Perhaps "Core 0.25 Octaconta". (because the cpu is not a full Core2)