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[Cyberman]

The truth about intel and AMD getting into multicore technology.
Neither were the first. Surprised? While Intel was touting an 80 core processor recently (floating point and all), this is nothing new though, in fact since 2003 there have been 96 core processors that support floating point. Here is a particular product (http://www.clearspeed.com/products/cs_advance/index.html) that uses such 'core' processors (http://www.clearspeed.com/products/csx600/index.html) as an excelerator. AMD/ATI recently has been looking into the stream processing (http://ati.amd.com/products/streamprocessor/index.html) concept as well (with 48 single precision FPU's instead of 96 I guess) with there slightly pricey R580 card (http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=321374).

Now don't you wish you have one of those things sitting in your machine? :D (I know my POV images would come out a LOT faster... maybe real time?)

Cyb

[BlueFalcon7]

Now don't you wish you have one of those things sitting in your machine? :D (I know my POV images would come out a LOT faster... maybe real time?)

Cyb

Somehow it wouldn't feel as good knowing I spent 2,000 dollars on a GPU. However, that 80 core was talking about live ray tracing. Definetly could help out rendering :P

[WhiteX]

I am thinking of "Downgrading" so this stuff is not for me.

[Miretank]

Now don't you wish you have one of those things sitting in your machine?
Silly :p

I'd be able to afford some 80 core processor 100 years after it's launch.