Intel's 48-core processor destined for science, ships to universities soon

If you've been hankering to get your hands on that stamp-sized 48-core processor Intel introduced last year, you'd better brush off your doctorate -- the chipmaker says it will send samples of the CPU to researchers and academic institutions by the end of Q2. Clocked between 1.66GHz and 1.83GHz like Intel's Atom netbook chips, the 48 cores won't boost your framerates in Crysis -- rather, they're intended for linear algebra, fluid dynamics and server work -- but what we wouldn't give to try. Oh well -- suppose we'll just have to make do with puny 8- and 12-core chips for now.

[markolic Posted Apr 10th 2010 9:52AM]

When will my eeepc get this, I wanna run Microsoft word without lagging.

[swissglide Posted Apr 10th 2010 11:48AM]

took me 3 passes to actually understand the article. Saturday mornings don't go well over at Engadget?

[swissglide Posted Apr 10th 2010 11:49AM]

@swissglide crap, wrong post. Apparently they don't go well here either

[ferrara101 Posted Apr 10th 2010 1:01PM]

My jaw dropped when I saw the number 48

[savagemike Posted Apr 10th 2010 1:14PM]

This would be more interesting if they were talking about parallel memory structures to really take advantage of multiple cores.
As it is now, you've got (or will have) dozens of accountants in a room crunching numbers - but there is still only one phone for them to get data from or report their answers back on.
They need to look more holistically at eliminating the bottlenecks in the system.

[MacBandit Posted Apr 10th 2010 1:16PM]

A version of this will be in the PS4. You heard it here first.

[Geoff900 Posted Apr 10th 2010 2:34PM]

@MacBandit I think they will have their one 'Cell' processor, in the PS4.

[MacBandit Posted Apr 10th 2010 3:05PM]

@Geoff900

Cell development was canceled almost a year ago.

[Juke Box Hero Posted Apr 10th 2010 1:30PM]

Sooo, is this Larabee in the flesh?

[thumbtack Posted Apr 10th 2010 2:58PM]

My everyday computer has a 1.83 GHz processor. An extra 46 cores couldn't hurt.

[GodCent Posted Apr 10th 2010 5:28PM]

FOR SCIENCE!

[Markanthony3210 Posted Apr 10th 2010 5:31PM]

Now only if we can roll this out on Notebooks.