Intel shows off a maths defying 8-core chip with 528 threads and optical interconnects

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Intel shows off a maths defying 8-core chip with 528 threads and optical interconnects
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Hyper ultra mega threading.

This kind of design is only suited to massively parallel workloads that don't stress the other parts of the core. Intel says the chip is useful for specific tasks such as DARPA's HIVE graph analytics tool. And, it can offer a 1000x improvement in performance per watt under those kinds of workloads compared to traditional compute solutions. We aren't going to be seeing CPUs with very high thread counts in our gaming rigs anytime soon, though.

Optical interconnect technology is something to keep an eye on. Several companies are working on similar tech. Latency is the enemy of gamers, and if inter-chiplet or inter-tile communications on the same package can be engineered to provide the same high bandwidth, low latency characteristics you'd get from a monolithic die, then bring it on!Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.

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