The Future of Computing, According to Intel

Massively multicore processors will enable smarter computers that can infer our activities.

Intel recently demonstrated a new, low-power computer chip that will use as many as eight cores, or processing units. Expected in the second half of 2008, the new chip will increase the amount of data that a machine can process and enable more-realistic graphics. But Andrew Chien, the director of Intel Research, is looking beyond eight-core chips and into the range of terascale computing, in which machines with tens or hundreds of cores perform trillions of operations every second. Chien is working with computer scientists at Intel and at universities around the world to find the best uses for these future machines.

Chien is speaking at the Emerging Technologies Conference today about Intel's exploratory research projects. Technology Review caught up with him beforehand to ask about the chip maker's research goals.

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Not even 4 cores are being used effectively by softwares, and Intel is talking about 80 -100 cores. duh!!

^^ people start crying when an OS says that it requires 1 gb ram then what can software makers do ...

^Right.
Now it will be possible to make more complex games.

Finally........Reality games

we are entering the world of MATRIX(THE MOVIE). all interface will be like that were there will be a 4-D environment and there we will require such monsterous PROCESSORS. everything will be a reality.

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it is for next decade when more complex games and softwares come...................

look at the good side, when 8 cores comes out, 2 cores and 4 cores prices will go down alot, then many peopple can afford 4 core

^^^ well said

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4D??? dude it is still only a belief.. not yet proven... and scientists belief it exists in deep space.. and we no one knows where that deep space might be!!!

^^ And yet it is a possibility.

fun2sh said:
we are entering the world of MATRIX(THE MOVIE). all interface will be like that were there will be a 4-D environment and there we will require such monsterous PROCESSORS. everything will be a reality.

What is 4-D enviorment??????? Will enviorment also move with time ? :))

Um? 4D? I thought it was only Length, Breadth and Depth (3D)

Maybe Time does count as 4th Dimension? Sheesh! Relativity

4th dimension is the smell.
Maybe some device to produce smell of burning rubber,flowers in garden.

iMav said:
^^ people start crying when an OS says that it requires 1 gb ram then what can software makers do ...

Well now 1 GB RAM costs what 256 MB ram costed earlier so what are the people cribbing about

And now , this 1 GB RAM has much much better performance than the earlier type so you get even more performance .

abey u have no idea ppl wet their pants whn they hear that vista requires 1 gb ram ....

ooee eggman 4D is taken as time.
see this *en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_dimension
even after reading A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME u didnt get it?

iMav said:
abey u have no idea ppl wet their pants whn they hear that vista requires 1 gb ram ....

true.

the ghz race is finished and start the core race hmm intel

light is knows as the only 4d object, or spectron rays

Guys u will see a Gigacore CPU in the future from Intel..

i read that in internet, dont remeber where...

Kilocore (1024 Cores)
Megacore (1024 KiloCores!)
Gigacore (1024 Megacores)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can't wait to get my hands on them !!!!

and

Time is the 4th dimension...
i hv studied topography and 4d physics

and u can't move in 4d dimension... if u say change it.. then u will time travel

every event in space has 3 co-ordinates..
and 4th is Time !!!!!
its called space time concept.......

there are no 4d objects ... lol. !!!!!!!! it makes no sense...

if they can create real 3d gaming enviroment.. that will be great...!!
but this is more of optics..

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GIGACORE !!!
hehe

hehe

hehe

imagine INTEL 3 GIGACORE PROCESSOR CHIP RUNNING AT 3Ghz speed dat makes it 3 GGHz !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
haha
soundz lik crazy or lik a fairy tale
fingerz crossed
apne bachhon ko main gift karunga yeh processor on their bdayz !!!!
haha

eggman said:
What is 4-D enviorment??????? Will enviorment also move with time ?

u need 3 eyes to view 4d environment

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T159 said:
u need 3 eyes to view 4d environment

3 eyes !!!! huh
o bhai dimaag set a tera ?

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3rd sense?

crazyforever said:
3 eyes !!!! huh
o bhai dimaag set a tera ?

thats wat physics books says.

u need n-1 eyes if n is the number of dimensions.

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say you are dealing with 4 dimension
i.e. x,y,z,t dimension (the last one for time)

i cant figure out how one could see this kinda system - at least for that last dimension i.e. time - u cant make an eye dealing with time......... its soundin crazy dood - i fink therez limit to increase in number of eyes as far as dimensions increases

crazyforever said:
say you are dealing with 4 dimension
i.e. x,y,z,t dimension (the last one for time)

i cant figure out how one could see this kinda system - at least for that last dimension i.e. time - u cant make an eye dealing with time......... its soundin crazy dood - i fink therez limit to increase in number of eyes as far as dimensions increases

read the 12th physics (Moderns ABC), though am not in 12th (actually in BE final year) i just happend to read that stuff.

may be this will help, but no direct indication is given:
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_dimension

NOTE: Do u all agree that with one eye u cannot predict the depth of two objects, which one is near to u and which is far.