14 DAY TRIAL // While companies like AMD and Intel are talking about dual core and even quad-core processing solutions, Azul Systems, a Mountain View-based company has owned the record for the number of cores per processor for a long time, and their new processor just adds a 'few' cores to the already incredible number.
The company specialized in network attached processing solutions yesterday announced the Vega 2 unit, and we tend to believe Azul when they say that it's the world's first and only single-chip 64-bit processor with 48 cache-coherent processor cores.
The Vega 2 processor integrates 48 cores and consists of 812 million transistors to enable future generations of Azul Compute Appliances to scale up to 768-way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems with up to 768 GBytes of memory.
The previous record belonged to Azul as well, with the Vega 1 processor, which allowed systems with 384 processor cores and 256 GBytes of memory
"Multicore chip architectures are quickly taking their place as the industry de facto standard for enterprise computing. The Azul Vega chip is revolutionary in its sheer multicore scale and power and density characteristics," said Vernon Turner, vice president and general manager, enterprise computing, IDC.
The systems based on the Vega 2 processor will be available starting 2007.