80-Core Chips; Futuristic Technology By Intel

Intel displays future of personal computing at its Gitex stand. The whole system comprises of wire and tube-filled box. It looks as it is a science project of school boys. But the concept is very much large. It doesn’t give an attractive look but it is the most futuristic technological machine being introduced at Gitex’08 event. Visitors at Gitex may not get compelled to see it due to its physical awkward design. One and the only part of this machine is 80-core chip. It has been developed by Intel’s research and development department.
Presently two-core chips are being used in computers having less functioning speed. This chip will be the fastest one and can reach up to 1 teraflops. This means that it can perform 1 trillion operations in just one second. It is almost 100 times faster than the two-core chips available in market today. It will be great and specifically created to run mathematical equations. It can solve the most complicated ones also. This product is not entirely new. It was firstly introduced in 2006.
Nitin Borkar – senior engineer at Intel – is there on Intel stand to demonstrate and tell about its functioning. He told that it cannot be used to run anything else on it except the told one; he specially mentioned games. The developers will prepare its software in near time; it hasn’t been written yet. Work is going on it.
The machine is greatly futuristic and a man of today’s world would hardly believe it. It will be available in market in future (It hasn’t been released for sale yet) but even after its release home-users would not be benefitted by it. Sam Al Schamma – Regional Director of Intel – told that this chip would be useable for home-users after a decade and a half. At that time, it will also be a need of home customers but not today. 
The technology will be very much advanced. He pointed out that in future there will be an application in market which could identify any person in pictures. That kind of application is like a dream today because web searches only work on keywords and they are blind to see and compare images. In one or two decades, it is expected that systems would be able to compare facial features also. 
He said that multi-core chips enable manufacturing companies to increase number of transistor every 18 to 24 months. In technological industry, it is known as Moore’s Law to double the number in that period. This 80-core is designed to help manufacturing companies following that law.