[via Digg.com] “Now that the Megahertz race has faded into the distance (we hear it was a myth), Intel is well and truly kicking off the start of a multi-core war with the demonstration of an 80-core research processor in San Francisco last week.”
This is truly unbelievable. I have no idea how they can manage to stuff 80 cores into a CPU. The main drawback with this, though, is that it will be terribly difficult to take advantage of so many separate cores. Software developers have the difficult task of trying to utilize them in a way that will provide better efficiency, which will not be an easy task. Someone has to step up — be it the OS developers or the user application developers — in order to make this technology effective (I sure hope it’s the OS developers). Do you think it will happen within 5 years, as Intel hopes?
