[Info-vax] OT: Intel says 1,000-core processor is possible

[JF Mezei]

John Wallace wrote:
> On Nov 30, 9:25 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> Intel says 1,000-core processor is possible
>>
>> http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/intel-says-1000-core-processor-is-p...
>>
>> NSR
> 
> Possible and useful are worlds apart here.


I suspect this is more of a research/pet project. But research in trying
to scale a chip to 1000 core may develop designs that could be very
useful when scaling beyond the current 8 cores per chip.