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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/30/2010 5:55 PM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> JF Mezei schrieb:
>> 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.
>
> Do they also try to scale ordinary RAM so that it can feed those
> 1000 cores with enough data?
>

1000 way interleave?  <evil grin>