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Intel unveils 48-core puting silicon chip
3 Dec 2009
Intel has unveiled a prototype chip that packs 48 separate processing cores on to a chunk of silicon the size of a postage
stamp.
The Single-chip puter (SCC), as it is known, contains billion transistors, the tiny on-off switches that underpin
chip technology.
Each processing core could, in theory, run a separate operating system.
Currently, top-end chips for puters typically contain four separate processors.
Intel and rival AMD will both launch new six-core devices in 2010, puters to simultaneously tackle a number of
complex tasks, such as processing graphics.
'Tiny islands'
The chip has won the "cloud" name because it brings together puting resources typically filling several racks in a
data centre.
The SCC is made up of 24 "tiles" each one of which is effectively a dual-core processor.
The chip maker said the research that had gone into the chip suggests that it could, eventually, cram 100 cores onto a single
piece of silicon.
In 2007, the firm showed off an 80-core processor, whilst earlier this year a US firm called Tilera announced a 100-core chip.
Also graphics chip maker Nvidia has previewed its next-generation processor that has 512 cores.
However, unlike both of these, the SCC is based on Intel's X86 architectu