Your smartphone may be a supercomputer in 10 years
A 1,000 core processor powered by a AA battery. It?s not science fiction: graduate students at the University of California in Davis designed such a processor, and IBM fabricated it using a 32-nanometer process. It?s likely the fastest processor designed at a university, Endgadget is reporting.
The chip, which contains 621 million transistors, is capable of 1.78 trillion instructions per second. Even cooler, the cores communicate directly with each other, meaning there?s no bottleneck of shared memory slowing everything down. Unused cores are capable of turning themselves off, helping a great deal with power management.
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A 1,000 core processor powered by a AA battery. It?s not science fiction: graduate students at the University of California in Davis designed such a processor, and IBM fabricated it using a 32-nanometer process. It?s likely the fastest processor designed at a university, Endgadget is reporting.
The chip, which contains 621 million transistors, is capable of 1.78 trillion instructions per second. Even cooler, the cores communicate directly with each other, meaning there?s no bottleneck of shared memory slowing everything down. Unused cores are capable of turning themselves off, helping a great deal with power management.
Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computi...#ixzz4CAps4mdD
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