Does the Cloud Need a Specialized Chip? – GigaOM

Does the Cloud Need a Specialized Chip? – GigaOM: "A key problem in all of these endeavors is figuring out how to get the multiple chips or cores to function together in such a way that performance scales linearly with the addition of each new core rather than tapering off as the communications between the cores or chips becomes overloaded. Intel and Tilera are hoping to do this on the chip itself, while systems vendors are trying to do it with a better box."