Will multi-core processors reach their limit with Intel's new Ivy Bridge?

[FishmanGeertz]

I think it's a little early for a die shot of the 8-16 core Intel "Ivy Bridge" processor, but this is an alleged photo.

Is it real?

 

[KrisOhn]

Whats the source of the image?

 

[FishmanGeertz]

Whats the source of the image?

http://mtmcv.com/intel-plans-new-factory-in-the-u-s-the-modernization-of-other-22nm-tech/

 

[KrisOhn]

All the Ivy Bridge is, is a shrinking of the Sandy Bridge architecture. This seems legit, other sources are saying the same thing, so yeah, Ivy Bridge is happening.

Whether that is a legitimate picture of the new die, I couldn't tell you.

 

[FishmanGeertz]

All the Ivy Bridge is, is a shrinking of the Sandy Bridge architecture. This seems legit, other sources are saying the same thing, so yeah, Ivy Bridge is happening.

Whether that is a legitimate picture of the new die, I couldn't tell you.

I thought the Ivy Bridge was an entirely new micro-architecture.

What about Haswell and Rockwell?

 

[KrisOhn]

Ivy Bridge is just a shrink of Sandy Bridge. From 32nm to 22nm.

Haswell and Rockwell should be entirely new architecture.

 

[FishmanGeertz]

Ivy Bridge is just a shrink of Sandy Bridge. From 32nm to 22nm.

Haswell and Rockwell should be entirely new architecture.

When will we see 16-core chips?

 

[KrisOhn]

Hopefully never.

I feel the industry is coming up against another wall just like they did in the pre-dual core era, when they were just trying to get chips to run higher and higher clock speeds to get them faster, they were coming up against a limit of how far they could push the chips. Now they're just shoving more and more cores onto the chips to get them faster... we need another break like we had when the dual cores came out.

Edit: wooo, post 100.

 

[FishmanGeertz]

Hopefully never.

I feel the industry is coming up against another wall just like they did in the pre-dual core era, when they were just trying to get chips to run higher and higher clock speeds to get them faster, they were coming up against a limit of how far they could push the chips. Now they're just shoving more and more cores onto the chips to get them faster... we need another break like we had when the dual cores came out.

Edit: wooo, post 100.

I don't see how things like PC games could utilize the power of 16 cores/32 threads. The only thing which would really benefit from that much CPU horsepower are things like HD video encoding and CAD.

With Nvidia "CUDA" CPU tasks are being handed to the computationally superior GPU. The difference in speed is like day and night. Most high-end GPU's have teraflop (trillions of calculations per second) computing power. CPU's don't have TFLOP power, yet.