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Keithe6e

12:49 PM on 30 January, 2009

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@The number of situation in which that kind of number crunching power would ever be needed are understandably limited.

Well, most applications nowadays are making support for multi-core, including games, video encoding etc. Even the OS can eat threads like no tommorow. Having 32 threads doing a H264 encode would be very nice.

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lifethroughalens

1:30 PM on 30 January, 2009

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meh, and we all though the numbers war was over when the GHz battles ended with the P4...

Personally I won't be content until Intel offers a 76.3 core chip.

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Robert Elliot

2:07 PM on 30 January, 2009

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I think that pretty soon we're going to see languages and frameworks that allow programmers to make multi-threaded programmes without really needing to think about it - at which point it will be a case of the more threads the better. For instance, locating an object in a list or sorting a list could both be done in a multi-threaded manner transparently to the programmer, I'd have thought.

Quite apart from that, it's easy to imagine a case where a game programmer assigns a thread to each AI characters decision making, for instance, so you could easily have 20 or 30 concurrent threads going.

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cjb110

2:39 PM on 30 January, 2009

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the other application is vm farms, you should be able to get more vm's per server/blade.

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MadMacs

2:52 PM on 30 January, 2009

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So let's have a sweepstakes on what they'll call this (eventual) hi-end technology, Core i8?

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