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TGDaily has a nice article on all the buzz coming out of Intel and their Terascale project. 80 Processors on a single chip to produce 1.8 TeraFlops.

If you are a tech head or a hardware slut, you have to check out the article. This is not the future processor, but a prime example of processor level of “networked computers” all on a single wafer. Not that this actual chip will be our future, but this kind of design I can only imagine we will see more of. Interconnected processing units all interconnected for the ultimate benefit of the whole.

Intel squeezes 1.8 TFlops out of one processor

Hey can anyone think of a few similarities if you add some AI to these wafers!

Skynet
TitanNet
Self-Aware AI

We all laugh about these things (heck we make movies about them) but heck back in 2000 Billy Joy, Chief Scientist at Sun Microsystems at the time. In Wired magazine article, stated “Our most powerful 21st-century technologies — robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech — are threatening to make humans a endangered species.”

How many more years does it take before this really does become a concern. Just something to ponder. I don’t think Sony’s Ibo is going to take over the kids, but when do we past that point of no return. Hmmmm

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