Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Aug 2007 17:24 UTC, submitted by burnttoy
Intel Intel on Tuesday said it would release this week eight technical papers describing key findings from the company's work on future programmable multicore architectures. The papers will be published in the Intel Technical Journal and will provide details on how the company expects future microprocessors with simplified parallel programming models to evolve.
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RE: Tired of pre-announcements
by horsnell on Thu 16th Aug 2007 20:25 UTC in reply to "Tired of pre-announcements"
horsnell
Member since:
2006-04-14

Hmmm... you'll be posting a lot on this website if links to links annoy you!

A more interesting article that could have been linked directly as it is already available is at

http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2007/2007-08-13_transactional_mem...

on transactional memory. This follows the announcement mid-week that their Rock processor will provide hardware support for transactional memory.

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tuttle Member since:
2006-03-01

Rock will support transactional memory? That is really great news. Something like transactional memory is the best chance to make the power of massively multicore CPUs available to mere mortals.

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kaiwai Member since:
2005-07-06

Unfortunately like most technology its going to take software companies years before they utilise the featuers; I mean, look how long it took them to move to 32bit, heck, Window Vista was in beta for 5 years and there are software titles still not compatible with it.

Unfortunately that is the one problem with the IT world - more concerned about private jets and perks of the job rather than investing the money in the long term health of the company.

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