First Intel 6 core chip

[Trooper110]

Intel unveils 6-core chip, as Unisys touts 96 cores | Business Tech - CNET News

Only for high end servers until some puts together a motherboard for a gaming rig that will run it, but still, sweet! Also, it's 6 cores on one piece of silicon, the first Intel chip that runs more than 2 cores on one piece of silicon with some kind of connection for more than 2 cores.

[Gimmie2]

The PS3 has an 8core (dual quad core) CPU... sony ftw!!!

[Skud]

yeah but

The PS3 has an 8core (dual quad core) CPU... sony ftw!!!

It bogs on COD4 with 16 players

[Trooper110]

There's dual quad core PC motherboards out there. Look up Intel Skulltrail. This is actually a single chip with 6 cores in it.

[DougBob]

The PS3 has an 8core (dual quad core) CPU... sony ftw!!!

No this is not the type of multi-core CPU intel and AMD design so you can't compare them. The PS3 is a IBM CPU based on a Cell processor arch. It's a totally different animal.

Also, the Cell BE cpu has nine processing elements, but one of them is disabled on the PS3

http://www-01.ibm.com/chips/techlib/...oadband_Engine

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/li...pa-linuxps3-1/

http://www.google.com/search?source=...=Google+Search

[ShosSofe]

The PS3 has an 8core (dual quad core) CPU... sony ftw!!!

That many cores. But how fast are teh cores?

[DougBob]

I don't have a good answer on that one yet. I need to do some more ready the techs on it. I believe this is the one that doesn't measure speed by a GHz rating of clock cycles but in operations per second.

[ryanbatc]

Meh, who needs cores?



We need more software to take advantage of multi-cored CPUs

It's still mainly about the clock speed...