Monday, March 7, 2011

8-core Intel chips to fall, the hardware world has gone mad

Funny how in recent years is trying to find the parallelization, at least as far as hardware is concerned. The era of microprocessors mononucleosis and may be considered the past, and we have entered an era in which there seems no end. Models 2, 4 and 6 cores are already on the market, in some cases with hyperthreading.

And 8-core chips soon. As much as the face of the autumn months, ie from the end of September. Intel will launch for whom the platform Sandy Bridge EP (sometimes also called Sandy Bridge E) high performance, which shall be one step above the current Sandy Bridge. We have already discussed some of the EP and future Intel Z68, which will use the new platform.

More specific specs on the new 8-core Intel processor is still uncertain. It is quite likely to include hyperthreading, which would be talking about 16 threads of process that would see the operating system, a real outrage. It would be logical that they had not integrated GPU, because these levels would be a complete waste.

Probably talking about a top-end CPU, an heiress on the current Core i7-990x but under the new EP Sandy Bridge microarchitecture. What else to add? That the world is crazy. The hardware is advancing at a speed that the software can not handle. We talk about multi-core processors, which programs they use can not take more than a fraction.

The future and not the first time I've said, is because the software fully leverages the hardware on which it is based. Models such as the 990x or the future own new 8 cores are only used to complete the professional sectors whose applications themselves are well designed and programmed for parallelization.

Meanwhile it is good to know where the limit on the market. 6-core now, and soon will be 8, but surely the vast majority of us will continue with a 4-core at home. Right? And worst of all, you will not be fully utilized. In Tech News Buzz | Intel Core i7. Via | Intel.

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