Intel announces plans for 50 core HPC chip

Intel has revealed its plans to release a new manycore chip for use in high performance computing (HPC) for highly parallel applications. The new product, codenamed Knights Corner, will have 50 cores on a single chip and will be created using Intel’s 22nm manufacturing technology. Industry design and development kits called Knights Ferry are already [...]

IDF2009: Visual computing round-up

As I hope you gathered from my blog posts last week, Intel Developer Forum was packed with keynotes and sessions that provided a valuable insight into the future of software development. So much so that I couldn’t get around it all. Perhaps one day they’ll come up with multi-core attendees so they can process more [...]

It’s all about Larrabee

A second video from the meeting with Intel’s Visual Computing expert, Aaron Coday. This time Coday discusses Intel’s Larrabee architecture and what it means for developers, game developers in particular. Designed to help with Throughput Computing, the first instantiation of Larrabee is set to be a graphics card based on the original Pentium core. In this [...]

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