Intel develops 48 nuclear smartphone tablet PC chip

Intel researchers are developing 48-chip chips for smartphones and tablets, but it may be 5-10 years before they are actually marketed. Enrique Gerero Enric Herrero, an Intel laboratory scientist, said that at present they have developed a prototype of a 48-core chip that can run different applications on different cores.

At present, small mobile devices are configured with multi-core chips, but usually dual-core, at most, four-core chips, integrated with several graphics processing cores. Configuring 48 of nuclear chips in a small mobile device will provide many new possibilities.

Researchers are studying how to make the most of the computational power of so many cores in one device. Herero said, "a single core chip in order to complete a number of tasks, on multi-core chips, multiple applications can operate on different cores." ”

Tanosu Lamireze Tanausu Ramirez, another Intel researcher who works on the 48 nuclear chip project, says multi-core chips can run multiple applications at the same time, but with lower energy consumption.

Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, said in a media interview that he thought the 48-chip Justin Ratner for small mobile devices would be "far ahead" of the 10-year time the researchers had predicted, and that expectations of nature would drive up demand for computing power, Multi-core chip is an effective means to improve the efficiency of chip. He says features such as speech recognition and augmented reality will drive the need for computing power.

But a problem for researchers is to make sure that small mobile devices have software that leverages so much kernel computing power. "This is a restrictive factor," Herero said. We need to change the way the operating system and applications are developed to improve their parallelism. It is meaningless to have a large number of kernels if you cannot make full use of their computational power. ”

Market research firm Moor Insights and strategy analyst Patrick Molheide (Patrick Moorhead) predicts that a smartphone will become the main computer that is used when it is configured to integrate processors with a large number of cores and smarter software.