The coolest and scariest things coming in the chip industry’s future

Re:The coolest and scariest things coming in the chip indust... by pyre on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @05:20PM (#788080)

> Intel recently had a chip design team in India create its Dunnington server chip, which was announced last year. That’s one of the most difficult kinds of chips to design.

Huh? What kind of chip is the most difficult to design?

That's like saying Windows XP is one of the most difficult types of Windows to design. That makes no sense.

{edit} There's also this gem: "It will be have 16 processing cores that can do for tasks, or threads, at a time." {/edit}

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Re:The coolest and scariest things coming in the chip indust... by ghshephard on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @09:36PM (#788446)

I think it's a typo and should read: "It will have 16 processing cores that can do _four_ tasks, or threads, at a time" - so, 64 thread parallelism.

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Re:The coolest and scariest things coming in the chip indust... by pyre on Thursday August 27, 2009 @01:03AM (#788668)

Yea, but if you look at the guy's resume of places he's worked you'd think that he'd have picked up some proofreading skills along the way... 'It will be have?'

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Re:The coolest and scariest things coming in the chip indust... by wmf on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @05:49PM (#788147)

A server chip is one of the most difficult kinds of chips to design.

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Re:The coolest and scariest things coming in the chip indust... by pyre on Thursday August 27, 2009 @04:47PM (#790007)

How is a 'server chip' that much different than a 'desktop chip?' Other than possible increases in caches and/or the number of cores?

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Re:The coolest and scariest things coming in the chip indust... by UncleOxidant on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @06:22PM (#788208)

At least according to the article, I would suspect that a modern CPU is a good bit harder to design.

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