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Intel To Announce Processor With Hundreds of Cores Today?

Intel is expected to unveil on Tuesday research plans for chips with hundreds of cores, or electronic brains, and a new way to ease the bottleneck these more complex processors will create talking to the memory in a computer.

Ten years ago, engineers could foresee a decade into the future as they projected new manufacturing technology, said Mark Bohr, a senior Intel fellow. Now they can foresee improvements that extend less than five years, Bohr said. "We are now in an era where we have to continue to innovate with new materials and structures" for transistors, Bohr said. "New materials have been introduced at a higher pace than a few years ago."

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Posted by | Tue, May 22, 2007 - 08:02 AM