At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, Intel CEO Paul Otellini holds a 300mm wafer with prototype 80-core chips, each of which he said would be able to perform a trillion calculations per second.
Otellini, right, stands with Rackable Systems CEO Tom Barton in front of a 22-inch-tall rack of servers with 80 quad-core “Clovertown” Xeon processors. The chips are scheduled to ship in November.
Anand Chandrasekher, leader of Intel’s new business for low-power processors and ultramobile personal computers, shows an ultramobile PC (UMPC) built by Quanta that uses an Intel processor. The device has a pull-out keyboard, WiMax networking, and a 1024-by-768-pixel, 5-inch screen.
Chandrasekher transfers map information from an ultramobile PC (UMPC) to the built-in computer in a Volskwagen car.
Bill Detwiler is the Editor for Technical Content and Ecosystem at Celonis. He is the former Editor in Chief of TechRepublic and previous host of TechRepublic's Dynamic Developer podcast and Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Previously, Bill was an IT manager in the social research and energy industries. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisville, where he has also lectured on computer crime and crime prevention.
