Intel Prototype May Herald a New Age of Processing
February 12, 2007 | Source: New York Times
Intel will demonstrate on Monday an experimental computer “Teraflop Chip” with 80 separate processing engines, or cores, that company executives say provides a model for commercial chips that will be used widely in standard desktop, laptop and server computers within five years.
Such computing power matches the performance speed of the world’s fastest supercomputer of just a decade ago.
For example, it could make it possible to blend synthesized and real-time video.