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This morning, Intel’s CTO Justin Ratter was presenting their “Single-Chip Cloud Computer” concept. This is not a product, but a research project to determine if such a product would be viable. The fundamental question is: “can we replace a server rack with a single chip?” A small R&D team has nonetheless built a 45nm, 48 cores (24 dual-core x86), 1.3B transistors chip physical processor for evaluation purposes. The power management makes it possible to scale consumption from 25 to 125W. The chip also contains 4 DDR3 memory controllers to serve the many cores inside. Intel will release the processor to “dozens” of partners like universities and key software companies like Microsoft. They are the software experts and will provide critical feedback to Intel. Microsoft has demonstrated…

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