News Intel readies a six core chip

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/02/26/intel_readies_a_six_core_chip/1

Quad-cores? Pff, old hat! How does a hex-core chip with a over 25MB of cache sound? Intel preps its Dunnington processor for a 2H08 release

 

Ok,

2 Core= Duo Core
4 Core= Quad core
6 Core= SEX CORE?

Btw, this is a fraekin trip!
What are we going to do with it though?

Well..........never mind that question. I can think of great things to do with it.

 

Wait.. it's not April 1st.

The 1066 bus speed - is that then quad-pumped? Or is that the quad-pumped speed?

 

"No specific desktop use has been outlined"
so basically its gonna be 2-4 years+ until we start seeing 6core chips in peoples sigs

 

or 10 moths for 8 core chips.....

 

Greetings!

Hexa-core.

 

Depends if you have the cash for Skulltrail

 

Guh, I would've bought a Sex-core PC just for kicks.

 

Bear in mind intel plan to have 80 core chips in 2012, so we're probably going to see some doubling every year or something like that.

2006 - 2 cores
2007 - 4 cores
2008 - 8 cores?
2009 - 16 cores
2010 - 32
2011 - 64
2012 - 128

of course, this is probably completely wrong, but hey there we go

 

is moores law going to start applying to the number of cores in a cpu?

 

i could research this before i ask, but i cant be fecked to do so, but isnt moores law specific to core speed, seeing a max of 4ghz or whatever it was, or did he create moores zeroth law like newton as he realised you can only fit soo many coes on the chip? Purely in response to chris' question.

I can see it now, new AMD 5 core solution with unparalled performance, the note reads: yes, we did it again, a botched batch of proccesors came out of one of our fab's so instead of six, you get 5 but what the hell, maybe we'll get it right one day but for now we'll say that we are covering a niche in the market Anyone know what AMD's roadmap has instore for us, will they ever really compete with intel again?

peace

 

Moores law was just about transistor count, If we assume Moore's law does apply to multicore cpu's and assuming intel would stop increasing the transistor number per core then with a 6 core cpu in 2008 it would mean a 12 core cpu in 2010, a 24 core cpu in 2012... but, Intel wont stop increasing the Transistor number per core, so its rather hard to make predictions based on Moore's Law if it comes to Number of Cores in Future Cpu's.

 

This is crazy. It's also sort of depressing. No matter how much you spend on an uber high end system, there will always be something better in a year.

 

Has it taken so long to figure that one out?
j/k
No matter what we do the industry will has something better in a few months.. Once You could run DOS 6.22 on a 16MB Ram machine and it would be flying.
Today.. Just to cope with all the bling we need 256 times that amount..

 

okay so umm I know this is cool and all but what do we need it for? I mean we are just not taking advantage of dual cores, barely have touched the quads and now this???

 

Why 6??? Why not just stack 2 quads on eachother and make a 8 core CPU?

 

Because there silly.

 

they want to milk the market, why release 8 when you can make money selling 6 and then release 8.

 

exactly, I should of bought a dual core instead of a quad. I dont use the quad and i could overclock a dual farther because there is less heat. no matter how you look at it, if you only use one core out of however many you have, whats the point of even having more than one?
sure in time we will be using more than one core on a regular basis, but in the mean time why spend the extra money.