Intel has issued a press release announcing that its researchers have developed a prototype 80-core chip; Intel says that the real deal would take from five to eight years to hit the market. More cores at what cost? Not much, it seems. The chip-maker is claiming the 80-core device executes teraflop performance while dissipating less than 100 W of power (less than many of today's dual-core chips). The company’s engineers will present a paper on the technical details of the 80-core processor at this week's (Sunday through Thursday) Integrated Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. Stay tuned. Check the front page as more information about the CPU becomes available.
Intel's Sunday press noted that teraflops performance could make possible a wide range of new applications: "For example, artificial intelligence, instant video communications, photo-realistic games, multimedia data mining and real-time speech recognition--once deemed as science fiction in 'Star Trek' shows--could become everyday realities.”
News source: InformationWeek
Intel's Sunday press noted that teraflops performance could make possible a wide range of new applications: "For example, artificial intelligence, instant video communications, photo-realistic games, multimedia data mining and real-time speech recognition--once deemed as science fiction in 'Star Trek' shows--could become everyday realities.”
News source: InformationWeek
I have nothing to say...
Yep,
http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-1282-vie...-prototype.html
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArt...cleID=196901229
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/01/18/in...core_prototype/
Just to name a few.... Great info, ...just a little late.
Last edited by Coolme on 12 Feb 2007 - 07:12
I think Intel is playing games.
The Singularity Is Near (read the book, highly, HIGHLY recommended) - It will be here before we know it, and things will truly, truly never be the same.
Here's the link BTW. http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2925
Hehe... :p
I thought we already had real time speech recognition? AFAIK, it's not the CPU power that's the limitation when it comes to recognizing voice, but good enough algorithms, at least right now. You don't really see anything but recognition software that requires more than a fraction of the available power. I think the same holds true for "artificial intelligence" -- for example the AI "chatterbots" of today use anything but heaps of CPU, and is a quite abysmal performance still. Theories and understanding of AI holds of back still, not really CPU, or otherwise we'd at least have powerful AI systems that struggles within the bounds of processing power. We also already have "instant video communications"...
Hehe... :p
I thought we already had real time speech recognition? AFAIK, it's not the CPU power that's the limitation when it comes to recognizing voice, but good enough algorithms, at least right now. You don't really see anything but recognition software that requires more than a fraction of the available power. I think the same holds true for "artificial intelligence" -- for example the AI "chatterbots" of today use anything but heaps of CPU, and is a quite abysmal performance still. Theories and understanding of AI holds of back still, not really CPU, or otherwise we'd at least have powerful AI systems that struggles within the bounds of processing power. We also already have "instant video communications"...
i think they mean some AI that is actually intellegent, not something that has a certain amount replies to certain words.
Hehe... :p
I thought we already had real time speech recognition? AFAIK, it's not the CPU power that's the limitation when it comes to recognizing voice, but good enough algorithms, at least right now. You don't really see anything but recognition software that requires more than a fraction of the available power. I think the same holds true for "artificial intelligence" -- for example the AI "chatterbots" of today use anything but heaps of CPU, and is a quite abysmal performance still. Theories and understanding of AI holds of back still, not really CPU, or otherwise we'd at least have powerful AI systems that struggles within the bounds of processing power. We also already have "instant video communications"...
i think they mean some AI that is actually intellegent, not something that has a certain amount replies to certain words.
that was his point, and i agree with him. We just don't have enough understanding of intelligence to make intelligent systems. That has nothing to do with the processing power.
The last time I checked (and tried), parallel processing was a tough obstacle to overcome. Did we finally get dual and quad processing to live up to its potential? So much so that now we're being bottle-necked by lack of cores? No, we didn't. Good job Intel, spend your time developing hardware that we neither need, want, or can take advantage of.
The last time I checked (and tried), parallel processing was a tough obstacle to overcome. Did we finally get dual and quad processing to live up to its potential? So much so that now we're being bottle-necked by lack of cores? No, we didn't. Good job Intel, spend your time developing hardware that we neither need, want, or can take advantage of.
Yes here here, let's just hold back progress and just stay where we are because it's good enough.
Maybe we should go back in time and tell cavemen to stop trying to make fire work since raw meat actually has more nutrients than cooked meat.
I mean come on, who really cares about stopping the spread of disease through heating the food, we're losing nutrients, vital nutrients.
So yeah, advancement is never important.
The most impressive fact about this chip is that each core can run at different speeds. So you can have your x86-64 cores running faster than your graphics processing cores.
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sounds a lil scary
Last edited by ThePitt on 12 Feb 2007 - 20:56
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