We've been looking at the new Intel Core i7 processors today. Obviously, with the Nehalem architecture Intel are really getting ready for massively multi-threaded multi-core chips in the near future. This is good news for image processing as a great many useful algorithms can be implemented using a parallel architecture, so the more mainstream parallel computing gets, the better. At Vision4ce , we've had a lot of success accelerating algorithms using the GPU and NVidia CUDA, so that experience should help us deploy onto other multi-core architectures, probably using OpenCL.
Another bit from Intel's blurb that interests me is the QuickPath technology:
'Intel QuickPath technology is a point-to-point connection—there is no single bus that all the processors must use and contend with to reach memory and I/O. This improves scalability and eliminates the competition between processors for bus bandwidth.'.
Now that sounds like Intel is really laying good groundwork for connecting lots of cores together in a parallel architecture - lets see what happens with the Intel Nehalem architecture in the near future.
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