[squeak-dev] Prepare for Thousands of Cores --- oh my Chip - it's full of cores!

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Sat Jul 5 12:41:01 UTC 2008


2008/7/5, Peter William Lount <peter at smalltalk.org>:
> Hi,
>
>  Intel among others such as Tilera and NVidia are telling us - yes us
> smalltalkers - to prepare for tens, hundreds and thousands of cores on a
> single chip. It's up to us to bring this power to our end users - and
> ourselves too!

The same Intel that has told us that the future will be IA64 / EPIC?
The same Intel that has promised us 20 Gigahurtz today? The same Intel
that tried to sell us RAMBUST? The same Intel that builds SSE into
it's processors to make the Internet faster?

Cheers
Philippe



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