48 core chip.. I want one of these.
 

http://news.cnet.com/2300-1001_3-100...g=nefd.gallery


The processor has 48 cores--24 dual-core "tiles"--connected with a high-speed mesh network. Intel wants the experimental chip,


that makes for some fast porn.

Holy crap! Terminator, here we come...

I think they're calling them cloud chips. Can't wait.

...beautiful

too bad you can count the software that will take advantage of 48 cores on one hand...

high end 3d software will benefit greatly. Most modern software has been written with CPu expansion in mind -- this is, if it'll handle 4, then it'll handle any number. The software doesn't have to be coded to use a specific number of cores.

Actually, that should stand for any code that uses multicore, including editing and most graphics programs.

Some people will say that's too much -- but if they made a 200 core cpu, I'd be able to bring it to its knees.

I see that chip putting the encoders out of business. The amount of time to encode an hour long video would be reduced to mere milliseconds.

Now THAT would greatly speed up our video transcoding :)

I'd say it's more likely that disk I/O would become a bottleneck, leaving the cores underutilised...