Chip Makers Show Range of Processors at ISSCC, Single to 48-Core

Posted 02/08/2010 at 6:08am | by Paul Lilly

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Several chip makers are expected to talk up current and upcoming processor designs at this year's International Solid State Circuits Conferences, but it's Intel's 48-core chip that might steal the show.

Not a whole lot is known about this mega-chip just yet, other than it's an experimental 48-core processor called the Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCCC). We also know that each core is a full x86 implementation that can run its own OS instance, but other than that, we'll have to wait for more details.

AMD will also be on hand to discuss an upcoming 32nm mobile processor, which could possibly end up being the company's first "Fusion" processor, currently codenamed Llano. Or it could be AMD's Bobcart architecture revealed last last year. Either way, AMD says the chip it plans to show off will be a 32nm implementation of an AMD x86-64 core with more than 35 million transistors (not counting L2 cache). It will run at frequencies above 3GHz and sport several power improvements.

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