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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.