Teraflop into the future
February 12, 2007 at 3:05 pm
According to a press release, Intel was able to produce a single CPU with 80 cores, that is able to deliver 1 Teraflop (1 trillion operations per second).
The now-called Teraflops Research Chip is composed of a total of 80 independent processing cores, which Intel refers to as tiles. The tiles are organized in rectangular fashion, with 8 tiles placed across and 10 down, adding up to a total of 80.
Though the company has no plans to release the 80 core chip to the public market, it claims that it offered specific insights in new silicon design methodologies, high-bandwidth interconnects and energy management approaches.
We’ll see what will come of it. In the meanwhile you can read more about the project here:
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