Intel recently demonstrated a new, low-power computer chip that will
use as many as eight cores, or processing units. Expected in the second
half of 2008, the new chip will increase the amount of data that a
machine can process and enable more-realistic graphics. But Andrew Chien, the director of Intel Research,
is looking beyond eight-core chips and into the range of terascale
computing, in which machines with tens or hundreds of cores perform
trillions of operations every second. Chien is working with computer
scientists at Intel and at universities around the world to find the
best uses for these future machines.

Chien is speaking at the Emerging Technologies Conference today about Intel’s exploratory research projects. Technology Review caught up with him beforehand to ask about the chip maker’s research goals.

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