Intel Says to Prepare For "Thousands of Cores"

Impy the Impiuos Imp writes to tell us that in a recent statement Intel has revealed their plans for the future and it goes well beyond the traditional processor model. Suggesting developers start thinking about tens, hundreds, or even thousand or cores, it seems Intel is pushing for a massive evolution in the way processing is handled. "Now, however, Intel is increasingly ’discussing how to scale performance to core counts that we aren’t yet shipping...Dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of cores are not unusual design points around which the conversations meander,’ [Anwar Ghuloum, a principle engineer with Intel’s Microprocessor Technology Lab] said. He says that the more radical programming path to tap into many processing cores ’presents the ’opportunity’ for a major refactoring of their code base, including changes in languages, libraries, and engineering methodologies and conventions they’ve adhered to for (often) most of t...