MIT’s 100-core CPU Will Be Ready This Year By Jane McEntegart January 24, 2012 And they’re not stopping at 100, either.

Way back in October of 2009, Tilera Corp announced that it had managed to squeeze 100 cores onto a single chip. The announcement focused on a new line of multi-core processors called the TILE-Gx series. Tilera said it planned to release 16, 36, 64, and 100 core models with the goal of simplifying system architecture. So far, the company has launched the 16, 36, and 64 core models. So where’s that 100 core model?

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list of multicore cpus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor

need to scroll halfway to list

Intel are not far behind they have a 72 core xeon phi

Lots of other companies in there too

Tau.Neutrino said:

list of multicore cpus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor

need to scroll halfway to list

Intel are not far behind they have a 72 core xeon phi

Lots of other companies in there too

:-)

Now all you need is the software to handle it. I had problem with quad core chips way back ten years ago. Licensing costs for engineering software to run on four cores at once were far in excess of four times the licensing cost for one core. :-( I wished fervently back then that I’d saved money and gone for dual core.

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

list of multicore cpus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor

need to scroll halfway to list

Intel are not far behind they have a 72 core xeon phi

Lots of other companies in there too

:-)

Now all you need is the software to handle it. I had problem with quad core chips way back ten years ago. Licensing costs for engineering software to run on four cores at once were far in excess of four times the licensing cost for one core. :-( I wished fervently back then that I’d saved money and gone for dual core.

I agree, software will certainly have some catching up to do; it’s struggling to use 16 cores efficiently.

Should be interesting anyway, acceleration of computing speeds in desktop hardware had slowed down a bit over the last few years.

I remain sceptical about whether quantum computing will ever do anything much.

What was the software with the expensive licencing cost?

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

list of multicore cpus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor

need to scroll halfway to list

Intel are not far behind they have a 72 core xeon phi

Lots of other companies in there too

:-)

Now all you need is the software to handle it. I had problem with quad core chips way back ten years ago. Licensing costs for engineering software to run on four cores at once were far in excess of four times the licensing cost for one core. :-( I wished fervently back then that I’d saved money and gone for dual core.

I agree, software will certainly have some catching up to do; it’s struggling to use 16 cores efficiently.

Should be interesting anyway, acceleration of computing speeds in desktop hardware had slowed down a bit over the last few years.

I remain sceptical about whether quantum computing will ever do anything much.

What was the software with the expensive licencing cost?

> I remain sceptical about whether quantum computing will ever do anything much.

It will have military applications in decryption, but otherwise I don’t see all that much use.

> What was the software with the expensive licencing cost?

ANSYS.