50 core processor from Intel
There were a lot of rumors about the Intel’s project called Larrabee concerning development of a multi-core processor. By the end of 2009 it seemed that the project was abandoned, but now Intel announced commercialization of a similar product, utilizing some of the Larrabee developments.
The new processor name is Knights Corner and it will be available with 8 to 48 cores with tendency to past over 50 cores. Intel created the new processor using Many Integrated Core architecture that have a lot of common parts with the Xeon architecture. The performance is expected to exceed 500 gigaflops and is further boosted with 8MB cache of each core.
Knights Corner purpose is parallel processing of huge data massives and respectively it’s target group are institutions performing big quantity of calculations. So far Intel is sending so called Developers Kit to computer manufacturers, but there is no fixed date for market release yet.
