Intel Hints at Octa-Core CPUs this Year

[exfileme]

In an interview with IDG News Services, Intel's Shannon Poulin gave an update on when the company will ship its first octa-core processor.

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[bourgeoisdude]

Unfortunately, the planned release is still a long ways away, so we'll just have to pacify ourselves with comic books and donuts until then.

That's actually pretty funny. Also...

...shouldn't it be octo-core, not octa-core?

 

[pharge]

hmmm.... what am I going to need 8-cores in my PC for?... playing games?.. that only use 1-2 cores.. running virus scnning at the same time? Ripping movies or making MPEG4 at the background? doing filtering or 3D modeling of my images at the background?... hmm... sounds cool... but guess I will need mind connected twin to enjoy this kind of "super" computer..lol How am I going to play game(s), running office, licenting music, while making MPEG4 and building 3D model at teh same time?... lol

This sounds like another example when the hardware development is way ahead of software development. The time when all the goodies are just eye candies... they melt in our eyes but not in our mouths....>_<

lol

 

[deltatux]

All the Mac Pros at my college have 8 cores and it's blazin' fast esp when I'm editing photos using Photoshop there. Now I have an Phenom II 810 so I'm not too envious as long as it gets my job done relatively quickly.

I think for most people quadcores should last us for at least 3 - 4 years before we actually need to jump to octocore. I'd even say sexacore (6 cores) would be already pushing it before we really need 8 cores.

 

[08nwsula]

8 cores? pfft. I want 32.

 

[Hatecrime69]

[citation][nom]08nwsula[/nom]8 cores? pfft. I want 32.[/citation]

Well..
8 cores x 4 sockets = 32 cores

But this sounds like something intended for servers, nothing suggesting 8 core desktops

 

[A Stoner]

I want 8 cores. I am already having to decide what processes have to share one of the four I have. Then again, I also need to double my memory or even quadruple it in order to run all the extra applications I am dreaming of running at once.

 

[fonzy]

What about that 80-core CPU they have touting?Is that just a server chip or will it become mainstream?....possibly in the next gen consols in a few years?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_PRtRfiNs

 

[rigaudio]

Most of the population do not even need 4 cores, let alone 8. But hey, I wouldn't mind :3

 

[cjl]

2.3 billion?

Damn. And here I thought the 1.4 billion transistor GT200 was a huge chip.

 

[Guest]

deltatux:

Wake up! They are touching 8 core in ONE package... not TWO chips...

Everybody else:

Have you people not heard yet about MULTITHREAD OPTIMIZED SOFTWARE?
Damn... people that comment news seems to forget basic facts... Come on people, start to think a little before commenting...

Even UT3 that's not THAT new scales with processor core count... imagine the next year's software... Almost EVERY computer now have at least TWO cores, so core scalability is becoming a MUST in software dev...

In 2 and a half years, 8 cores is gonna be the mainstream, and hexa core is gonna be the premium systems...

 

[megamanx00]

Well they have to keep pushing. If they become complacent again AMD will pass them. I'm not sure if AMD has really learned that lesson as it happened to them when they were so busy enjoying the success of their 90nm Athlon X2s they slowed down 65nm development (a contributing factor to the delay of the Phenom and its TLB debacle) and decreased IPC in their 65nm Brisbane.

 

[pharge]

BTW, 8 cores?... hmmm... that kind of remind me of the CELL processor (the one in the PS3)...lol.... 1 PPE + 8 SPE.... hmm... can we call it a 9 core processor, too?...
Though it is really quite a different story... but just can't help not to think about it...lol

 

[anamaniac]

Comics and donuts... I love you now.

 

[Claimintru]

It's truly remarkable to see manufacturers continue on despite the financial instability

What are they supposed to do? Say the economy isn't so great and give up making money?

This and Parrish making a joke out of a guy being killed in front of his computer(see other news article) only confirm his complete lack of writing talent and taste....that and all his articles follow the exact same format. Vague lead-in with broad references, company specific facts that most people know, the actual article, trying to end on a light note. Every single Kevin Parrish article is identical

 

[apache_lives]

Heh all we need is the desktop variant, and programmers to make use of 64-bit and multi-threading PROPERLY

 

[NuclearShadow]

Didn't Intel promise 50 core CPU's by 2012? Really this is simply getting out of hand. If software developers don't start catching up and making use out of these CPU's who is going to buy them?

 

[hellraiser06]

What are they supposed to do? Say the economy isn't so great and give up making money?

This and Parrish making a joke out of a guy being killed in front of his computer(see other news article) only confirm his complete lack of writing talent and taste....that and all his articles follow the exact same format. Vague lead-in with broad references, company specific facts that most people know, the actual article, trying to end on a light note. Every single Kevin Parrish article is identical

I second that. I just read the other article in which a guy got killed in front of his computer. Editors, please take care of this guy. He is ruining the forums. NONE of his articles are good to read..

 

[zedx]

If you don't use 4 or even 2 cores that doesn't mean that 8 core systems shouldn't pop up. That's like saying there shouldn't be any geforce/radeon because of IGC. They are so many tasks like rendering, compiling etc. I'm not going to buy this though as I'm waiting for larabee or opencl since my work involves data parallel apps...

 

[eddieroolz]

Does it actually make much of a difference for 95% of the software out there?

I think all chipmakers and software vendors should get together and start implementing multi-threaded programming first. What's 8 cores if we can't use more than 2 or 4, right?

 

[zedx]

[citation][nom]zedx[/nom]If you don't use 4 or even 2 cores that doesn't mean that 8 core systems shouldn't pop up. That's like saying there shouldn't be any geforce/radeon because of IGC. They are so many tasks like rendering, compiling etc. I'm not going to buy this though as I'm waiting for larabee or opencl since my work involves data parallel apps... And no for most things hardware isn't fat enough like raytracing and real time hair rendering[/citation]

 

[matt87_50]

[citation][nom]deltatux[/nom]All the Mac Pros at my college have 8 cores and it's blazin' fast esp when I'm editing photos using Photoshop there. Now I have an Phenom II 810 so I'm not too envious as long as it gets my job done relatively quickly.I think for most people quadcores should last us for at least 3 - 4 years before we actually need to jump to octocore. I'd even say sexacore (6 cores) would be already pushing it before we really need 8 cores.[/citation]

hehe: sexacore

going from 1 to 2 cores was a bigger performance boost than any because it meant that your 40+ background processors could fight over one of the cores, but your main process now got one all to itself, all other advancements (from 2 to 4 ect) require that your main process actually uses multiple threads, this is not always a simple thing to do, and there can be quite a bit of overhead in making an app thread safe, which means technically apps are now less efficient

 

[avericia]

PLZ stop posting ignorant comments "games only use 1 or 2 cores" have u ever played ut3, Dawn of war 2, Crysis, call of duty 5, Warhammer because those games and more are heavily multi threaded as well as games coming out in the future.
4 cores and above allow large performance gains as long the program is optimized to take advantage of it which is becoming more and more common, so 8 cores will just allow game developers to make even more amazing looking games.

 

[jsloan]

wow, imagine the games. the physics will be amazing. realtime world deformation. the explosions. imagine 16, 32, 48, 64, ect cores... morpheus, plug me in... ;-)

 

[jsloan]

then again we are one step closer to cybernet, terminators and apocalyptic wasteland.