Intel unveils new x86 Xeon Phi

[Morbid Angel]

50+ x86 compatible cores and its just a start. Not bad!

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817...+International

[Morne]

Interesting, I wonder if normal people will be able to afford it, and if VRay will be able to take advantage of it with a normal render (not RT)

[vlado]

Interesting, I wonder if normal people will be able to afford it, and if VRay will be able to take advantage of it with a normal render (not RT)

Probably not automatically by default, but it's likely that it can be done to much larger extent than for GPUs. I don't know how you program this thing though, so I don't have exact answers.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Morbid Angel]

I may be wrong, but like any new technology it will be some time before its widely available and has support for common software.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Id like 7 of those please! :]

[plastic_]

I don't know, my modest core i7 is already quite heating up my room a lot, which isn't so nice in summer. I don't think I'm going to get a new machine with more watt, at least for home. It's sad that there is no more development in speed besides adding cores.

[dlparisi]

Mobid-Seems you weren't too far off all those years ago.... http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...636#post338636

[MoonDoggie]

Haha, I remember seeing that. Morbid, hit that connection up again and test the 50+ core setup!

[Morbid Angel]

Ha...that post is still around eh? You should have seen what fuss it made on other forums. Honestly though, back then I already had some contacts who were developing this prototype, so it would only be a matter of time before something like this showed up.
I am a bit surprised it appeared in this way though. As a few years ago during Siggraph I saw a machine which had 64 cores, thats 4x16 (logical) core cpus, and 256 gb of ram. I thought that this would just be what intel would release next, but I guess there is only so many cores they cant fit into a small cpu. This board could have thousands...like cuda cores but x86 compliant.
Exciting times gents...