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Archives => 2008 => Topic started by: gunug on November 02, 2008, 10:21:45 AM

Title: Window 7 (the next version) will be scalable to 256 cores
Post by: gunug on November 02, 2008, 10:21:45 AM

In a press briefing on the upcoming version of Windows the project coordinator says it will scale to as many as 256 cores on one processor:

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During the debut of the pre-beta of Windows 7 this week, Windows Engineering Chief Steven Sinofsky made a passing reference to Windows 7 being able to scale to 256 processors. But he never said how this would be enabled.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1687

I suppose this in response to some indication from Intel that they intend to make a processor with 256 cores?  I didn't look exhaustively but I couldn't find anything out there that said such a thing was in the works.  Anyone?