[LINK] 1000 core CPU achieved. (5 GB per sec. MPEG rendering)

[Roger Clarke]

At 17:12 +1100 11/1/11, Tom Koltai wrote:
>Quote/
>Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Lowell laugh in the face
>of Intel's weedy handful of cores in its new CPU lineup: They've just
>squeezed over a thousand processor cores onto a single chip. ...
>/Quote
>
>We live in interesting times... Moores WHAT ?

You mean, <gasp>, that the future of the computer may not be the 
network after all, but may be the computers??

Alternatively, 'they can make my client as thin as they like, 
provided it's got a few of *them* inside it'.


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