One Processor, 128 32-bit Cores

Max Entropy writes: "EETimes reports that a German company named Pact GmbH has developed a chip containing 128 microprocessor cores as part of the company's 'Extreme Processor Platform' (XPP). 'Each of the XPP's 128 processor cores sports its own 32-bit fixed-point multiplier, yielding a theoretical output of 12.8 billion multiply-accumulate operations per second at an expected clock frequency of 100 MHz. Pact claims the architecture will scale to produce devices capable of more than 400 giga operations/s in 2002 and into the peta-ops range within a decade.' The transistor budget for this behemoth is 30M, fabricated on a 0.21-micron process." Of course, each one of those processor nodes is completely proprietary and requires some peculiar programming.

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[Frac]

Timothy doesn't read Slashdot
Posted by timothy on 04:20 AM April 1st, 2001
from the at-least-read-the-front-page dept.
Frac writes: "It seems rather obvious that timothy doesn't read Slashdot, considering that the an article still on the main page mentions the exact same news." Interesting stuff. And in other news, there are now proton polymer batteries available, results from ICANN elections, and a really interesting article at ZDNET on reverse-engineering.