News - Intel explains architecture that could scale to 1,000 cores

[HEXUS]

42-core ‘Single-Chip Cloud Computer’ arbitrarily scalable without impacting performance.

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[kellyharding]

Could potentially work well where CPU performance isn't key, but threading is perhaps. Will be interesting to see where they go with it.

[Fraz]

Arbitrarily scalable... up to 1000 cores. So, not all that arbitrary then.

[miniyazz]

Well it sounds like it could go higher but you'd start losing performance so it would make no sense - so maybe arbitrary then

[Funkstar]

1,000 is an arbitrary figure, probably plucked out of thin air for the press release.
so a 6x4 tile of 2 cores is 48 cores. Scaling this logically would we taking these tiles and making a 6x4 platter of them, giving you 24x 48-cores. Meaning 1152 cores in total.

It's never going to be a nice 1,000 cores, just like CPU speed is never actually a nice round 2GHz or whatever.

[oolon]

I think arbitary means you can have 43 cores, 139 cores etc, any number of cores rather than fixed multiples. yes I know they come in tiles however I expect defective cores will be disabled to increase the yield of usable processors.