Intels Multi core CPUs

Intel is in the process of developing multi-core processors that are capable of increasing floating-point performance into the spheres that are reached by computing clusters today. The projected performance of Intel’s 80-core prototypes at the time it could become available is expected to hit one teraflop.

At this point it’s also interesting to note the floating point performance of a Pentium 4 processor:

A 3 GHz model reaches 0.006 teraflops, which underlines the impressive capabilities of the 80-core prototype. We have to add that floating point performance is more important for scientific applications and number crunching than it is for desktop applications, but it might enable geologists to analyze drill test samples on their way home instead of processing it in expensive server farms.lets wait for the multi core CPU’S.

I think in futre the processors will be named like 1giga core processor(as we say I mHz processor today) . what you think?

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