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Monday, June 20, 2016

The 'KiloCore' Chip

Science Daily: World's first 1,000-processor chip - Thought to be the fastest chip designed in a university lab
summary - A microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors has been designed. The energy-efficient 'KiloCore' chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors.

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

How would you like to have to keep that thing cool? I have a helluva time keeping my lap top cool right now.

Jim Sande said...

Got me, but I like it.