Next-Gen Processor Unveiled

A bunch of readers sent us word on the prototype for a new general-purpose processor with the potential of reaching trillions of calculations per second. TRIPS (obligatory back-formation given in the article) was designed and built by a team at the University of Texas at Austin. The TRIPS chip is a demonstration of a new class of processing architectures called Explicit Data Graph Execution. Each TRIPS contains two processing cores, each of which can issue 16 operations per cycle with up to 1,024 instructions in flight simultaneously. The article claims that current high-performance processors typically are designed to sustain a maximum execution rate of four operations per cycle.

Comments

Re:I want one

[ackthpt]

But when are they likely to be ready?

• You know they'll be ready when Intel places large orders for aluminium for heatsinks.
  
• You know they'll be ready when there's a sudden drop in prices of the current Hot CPUs, which are all proven but suddenly look like last month's pizza from under the couch.
  
• You know they'll be ready when AMD hasn't said anything and they are suddenly shipping them, while Intel tells you in 9 mos. then suddenly says 3 mos. (and you can hear the whips cracking through the walls.)
  
• You know they'll be ready when Microsoft doesn't have an operating system ready, but there are a dozen Linux distros good to go.
  

Re:I want one

[mrbluze]

Well i won't buy one until the Super version comes out (STRIPS). Now that's a name that has appeal!