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Photos: Technicolor wafers star on IDF floor

By Bill Detwiler September 26, 2006, 8:51 AM PDT Bill Detwiler on Twitter billdetwiler

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Photos: Technicolor wafers star on IDF floor

Hello, Peter Max. Here is a shot of a wafer with the 80-core chips Intel showed off at its three-day Intel Developer Forum, held in San Francisco. rnrn

The 80-core chips are set to come out in around five years and have the capability to send out 1 trillion bits of information per second through an I/O channel.

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In person, the wafer only looks slightly multicolored to the human eye. The camera exaggerates the effect in this photo.

Photos: Technicolor wafers star on IDF floor

This wafer of prototype 80-core chips is half-finished so visitors to IDF can see the underlying communications paths between the cores.

Photos: Technicolor wafers star on IDF floor

This is a close-up of a close-up picture of the vias in the 80-core chips. Data travels between the processor and memory through thousands of dedicated channels. rnrn

The process, called through-silicon vias, involves stacking chips vertically in a package and then creating connections between the bottom of the top chip and the top of the bottom chip. TSV, which Intel discussed in March of 2005, will greatly speed up processing.

Photos: Technicolor wafers star on IDF floor

This is a 22-inch high rack of servers from Rackable. The rack holds 40 servers, each of which has two four-core chips. That comes to 320 cores. The rack can crank out 3 trillion operations per second, earning it a spot among the 300 fastest supercomputers in the world. A full rack (42 inches) has over 600 processor cores.

Photos: Technicolor wafers star on IDF floor

The Classmate notebook PC for emerging markets. The computer, which Intel showed off in June is a sub-$400 notebook the company is developing for kindergarteners through high school students in developing nations.rnrn

The Classmate will come with about 1GB of flash memory instead of a hard drive so it can withstand accidents better. Asset-control software will make laptops disable themselves if they’ve been out of the classroom for too long. The Classmate will also come loaded with software that attempts to keep students on task.

Photos: Technicolor wafers star on IDF floor

Entertainment PCs from Acer and Shuttle, among others. These are small machines made to go into living rooms.

Photos: Technicolor wafers star on IDF floor

Flame on: A fancy PC from game specialist Falcon Northwest with an Intel quad-core chip. Falcon is one of the companies that says it will have PCs with quad-core chips by the end of the year.

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