Intel says 1,000-core chips for supercomputers are possible

While Intel has no plans to build 1,000-core chips, the creation of such chips is possible for supercomputers, according to one of the company's principal engineers, a recent ZDNet interview revealed. Employed at Intel's Microprocessor Technology Laboratory, Timothy Mattson believed the company's 48-core Terascale chips used in the Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) can offer the architecture for such a chip and Intel's factories can build one within about a decade....



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