Intel 48-core chip
This is just a prototype, running with small number of cores (48) compared to GPU (hundreds), but is it interesting in may ways, because it it a grand son of iAPX 432, the first 32bits microprocessor. (see Intel SCC Cloud-computing 48-core processor prototype)
iAPX 432 was a great advancee in CISC processors, and maybe the most advanced of 32 bits chips ever, albeit being the first 32bits microprocessor. Not in terms of performances, ’cause it was lagging behind a 286+287 16bits microprocessor, but because of it’s object-oriented, multithreaded, message-passing design. This design was unequalled in the 32 bits world!
And now iNTEL, creator of iAPX 432, introduces some of the advances of this old-design (early 80’s), into it’s next generation design, conceived for cloud computing as well as desktop computing, that we may have in our computers within the next 3-5 years! I feel excited!
