48 Cores on 1 Chip

http://www.dailytech.com/Intel+Demon...ticle16951.htm

AMD where are you ? :sad5:

Some points that work against this chip.

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Originally Posted by http://www.dailytech.com/Intel+Demonstrates+48Core+SingleChip+Cloud+Compute r/article16951.htm

* Intel calls its new 48-core IA32 processor a "single-chip cloud computer" (SCC) because [...]

* [...] was built on Intel's current 45nm high-K metal gate process.

* Although the hardware is impressive, it is the software that will determine how well the SCC works.[...]

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This looks like a Larrabee for Datacenters. If it's a working chip and if Intel give it away in a half year to some devs then AMD has a big problem.