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"most ambitious project" candidate?
« on: November 01, 2009, 10:20:16 AM »
I just read an announcement about Tilera's new 100 core CPU, the Tile-Gx.
Wouldnt porting OS4 to this CPU be a worthy candidate to the speculations around Hyperions secret "most amitious project"?
 

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Re: "most ambitious project" candidate?
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2009, 01:46:20 PM »
Nobody exept Hyperion themself knows which direction they are going. But I noticed that multi-core was mentioned on the roadmap for OS4.2.

I just though that it would be cool to have a cpu for the Amiga that was ahead of the intels again.
In the published article I read, it was also mentioned that Microsoft is not going to use this CPU in Windows 7, because they are already working on a CPU with 80 cores - to be released in about 5 years.
So in a way it will be like beating M$/intel at their own game:)
If the statement of having 100 cores will not help the desktop market is true, why the 80 core cpu for windows in 5 years?

No matter if OS4 will be able benefit from all the 100 cores, it should still be much faster than any Amiga HW ever seen before.