Comments on: Intel's Dunnington: Six cores on one chip

Later this year, Intel plans to release server chip that has all six processing cores integrated onto a single chip, according to a slide from a leaked Sun presentation.

[xtrasico]

Technology and time

And I thought six months ago that my box was on the edge with an AMD64X2 +5600MHz, 2GB of PC6400 ddr2 and two 8800GTS 320MB in SLI mode. Back to the drawing board... Soon will see Skinet coming online and... ;)

[xtrasico]

Error

Skynet...

[gerrrg]

One can never have too many cores...

I love it when you can see all 8 cores running at 100% capacity during a rendering.

I need more power.

I want optical cores...why can't the future already be here???

[fred dunn]

They can if there are bottlenecks in speed...

between the cores, cores to memory, cores to I/O, etc. The reason your CPUs are sitting at 100% CPU is that they are probably taking bad cache hits and having to go back to the next level or even to system RAM.

[guest86]

How about 12 Cores in one?

I heard from company said they will making new 12 cores on one processor. We don't need two or more processors and save money. I want see more info in near future. We will be glad to learn more on many different kinds of processors between Intel and AMD. :-)

How about Xbox 720/Revolution, Play Station 4(PS4), and Nintendo Wii 2 will running more than one core in near future? We want like Extreme gaming and multiple programs running at same time. I hope Intel will be more improve than regular cores.

[skrubol]

Very old news

Intel has demonstrated an 80 core chip. Granted they were very simple cores. It was just a proof of concept.
Xbox360 and PS3 are already using multicore. The Xbox has I think a 3-core PowerPC architecture, and the PS3 is using Cell.

[Warhaven]

Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad ... Core 2 Sex! Sweeet.