TGDaily has posted a short video from spring IDF in Shanghai showing a particle game demo up and running on a Nehalem based CPU and the demo scales across all four cores / eight threads. The demo consists of a lot of wireframes with fire burning all around them.

According to TGDaily, there's between 50 and 60,000 particles at any one time in the demo and everything you see is rendered in real time. It all looks very impressive and this means there there is hope for better multi-core support when it comes to future games.

However, we'd expect it to be quite dificult to program these type of features, although Intel is looking at giving away the code for this demo for free in the future which might also help with game development. The only downside would be that most people don't have anything better than a dual core system as yet and we're not even going to speculate on when eight-core systems will hit mainstream.

You can find the video here and if you're interested in getting the source code for the fire demo once it becomes available, you should email