When intel announced they were halting the development of higher clock rates (i.e. over 5 GHz), people thought this was going to hugely impact processor speed improvements. The truth is that "speed" is either subjective or also related to a big number of other factors. Either way, we now know that there is a lot of room for creativity when it comes to improving processor power.
With one of those methods involving automatically turning single thread applications into multi-threaded ones to run on ever increasing core counts.
I wonder if they will ever make "glue-logic-cores" or something like that. What if all you had to do to get 100x processor power was to buy 100s of cores and then plug them in a big "power extension cord" type of thing?
Aside of wether it is possible or what are the implications of doing it, i wonder if Intel would even be willing to pursue this goal though as their current marketing efforts are focused on creating and selling premium products (i.e.: "i7 is more powerful than i5"). I do think they would be greatly benefited from being able to sell 100s of cores to a single wealthy customer though.
Also, what about the business model of Google Stadia? Processing power as a service (over the internet) can be a big thing too. This could change a lot of things.
When intel announced they were halting the development of higher clock rates (i.e. over 5 GHz), people thought this was going to hugely impact processor speed improvements. The truth is that "speed" is either subjective or also related to a big number of other factors. Either way, we now know that there is a lot of room for creativity when it comes to improving processor power.
[quote]With one of those methods involving automatically turning single thread applications into multi-threaded ones to run on ever increasing core counts.[/quote]
I wonder if they will ever make "glue-logic-cores" or something like that. What if all you had to do to get 100x processor power was to buy 100s of cores and then plug them in a big "power extension cord" type of thing? :lol:
Aside of wether it is possible or what are the implications of doing it, i wonder if Intel would even be willing to pursue this goal though as their current marketing efforts are focused on creating and selling premium products (i.e.: "i7 is more powerful than i5"). I do think they would be greatly benefited from being able to sell 100s of cores to a single wealthy customer though.
Also, what about the business model of Google Stadia? Processing power as a service (over the internet) can be a big thing too. This could change a lot of things.
