nvidia beat them; 128 cores in production devices, but the power for an 8800gtx is more than 150w and less than 225w (the dual PCIe power connectors, 75w from the 16x connector, and 75w each from the dual power connectors; 277w load for the entire system according to the TR review; which would place it closer to the 150w side)

is this 80-cores in the same sense that the Cell is 8-core?

Time to think about upgrading that FSB yet?

core 2 duo is inefficient..then.. :-p

"My CPU is a neural-net processor... a learning computer"

In the meantime, Vara says we might see "different flavors" of quad-core chips that have "more complex cores along with simpler cores."

This sounds like AMD's strategy, beginning with Fusion. A sort of heterogeneous multi-core processor with a few general-purpose cores and the the rest being specialized (for graphics, networking, physics, etc.).

whoops double post

Sounds like Sun's Niagara:

http://www.sun.com/processors/niagara/

Is this Rocket OCable ??? ;)

Mmmm. We're so close to producing an Artificial Neural Network processor. Now if we can only integrate the circuit on carbon nanotubes instead flat pieces of silicon...

Well that sounds about right if each core has Pentium II style transistor counts.

Here's for hoping that this will make it into some kind of gpu in the future. Real time raytracing is some pretty cool stuff. Quake 3 ray tracing is amazing, as are some of the other real time ray tracing videos.