Friday, December 16, 2016

Microprocessors With More Brains Per Chip.

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Me, "This article is a little dated. Going back to Nov 2015 but its definitely interesting due to the fact that Intel keeps increasing the number of processors on a chip. First it was then dual, quad, now it will be 6, 8 and even 10 processors on a chip. This means faster processing chips as more of the computer processing of programs is spread out and processed at the same time in each core.
This is reminiscent of the 90's when intel was trying to speed up the single core processor but it eventually got to hot to cool down successful, which lead to multicore chips.
It makes a lot of people wonder if there is an upper limit to putting more processors together on a chip. With the size of chips still getting smaller. I don't believe that is a problem.
Even if minaturization slowed, there is plenty of space on a motherboard to put multi-core chips. Remember, that when talking about microprocessor, chip transistors, that are made smaller then the width of a human hair, microprocessors are still much smaller compared to the size of a whole computer.
So, get ready for even faster computers."


From Article, "Intel's 10-core monster planned for Q2 2016 debut, according to new leak Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/broadwell-e-roadmap-leak/#ixzz4T1lIZ1mN Follow us: @digitaltrends on Twitter | DigitalTrends on Facebook"

(It wasn’t long ago that we reported on a leaked invoice sheet that was believed to detail some of the specifications of the new Broadwell-E CPUs, and now a roadmap is purported to point to a Q2 2016 release for the 6, 8, and 10-core monsters, according to a leak from Chinese tech site Benchlife.
While the Broadwell-E line is rumored to include as many as seven different chips, the star of the show is definitely the i7-6950X. This 10-core chip supports Hyper-Threading for a total of 20 threads, and sports 25M of total cache. The other CPUs in the lineup boast six or eight cores, all of them with Hyper-Threading, and total cache ranges from 15 to 25M.)

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