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MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip

Posted January 23, 2012 8:21 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

Tilera squeezes cores onto chips -- lots of cores. A core is a processor, the part of a computer chip that runs software and crunches data. Today's high-end computer chips have as many as 16 cores. But Tilera's top-of-the-line chip has 100.

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Re: MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip

01/23/2012 2:35 PM

Wow! 100 cores on one chip? The Microsoft goons gota be drooling over how much more usless bloated surpliferous software crap they can pound into windows 8 or 9 when these processors hit the market in a number of years.

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Re: MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip

01/24/2012 1:56 AM

Nah, nah, nah. You are splendiferously supercilious with these fellows.

Methinks, quantum computing with its direct solution on partial differential equations is the way to go.

But what do I know, I am a simple hungarian engineer casting iaundiced eye on my better at MIT.

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