processor cores

Nvidia yesterday began shipping the GeForce GTX 480, with double the number of processor cores previously available at 512.

The card is intended to to permit smooth playback and editing of 2D or 3D content, including animation, games and videos.

Intel has confirmed reports that it will not release its next-generation graphics processor widely known as Larrabee as a discreet GPU.

Instead, most reports indicate that the company will move ahead with its many-core processor as a design and development platform aimed at graphics rendering and high-performance computing.

Thought you were bleeding edge with your quad-core PC? Think again. A company called Tilera today announced that it's working on a chip containing 100 processor cores, which it says could be seen by 2011.

It's part of its new TILE-Gx line of 64-bit multi-core processors, the first of which--a 36-core chip--will be sampling by the end of 2010, the company said today in a statement.