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California Researchers Build The World's First 1,000-Processor Chip (ucdavis.edu)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the University of California, Davis about the world's first microchip with 1,000 independent programmable processors: The 1,000 processors can execute 115 billion instructions per second while dissipating only 0.7 Watts, low enough to be powered by a single AA battery...more than 100 times more efficiently than a modern laptop processor... The energy-efficient "KiloCore" chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors.
Programs get split across many processors (each running independently as needed with an average maximum clock frequency of 1.78 gigahertz), "and they transfer data directly to each other rather than using a pooled memory area that can become a bottleneck for data." Imagine how many mind-boggling things will become possible if this much processing power ultimately finds its way into new consumer technologies.
Programs get split across many processors (each running independently as needed with an average maximum clock frequency of 1.78 gigahertz), "and they transfer data directly to each other rather than using a pooled memory area that can become a bottleneck for data." Imagine how many mind-boggling things will become possible if this much processing power ultimately finds its way into new consumer technologies.
A young intern who likes to "work late" in Davis California has recently come into the possession of a rather large stash of bitcoins.
the world's first microchip with 1,000 independent programmable processors ... Imagine how many mind-boggling things will become possible if this much processing power ultimately finds its way into new consumer technologies.
Yeah, but you have to keep in mind how many cores will be left for the user!
1000 cores minus:
* 200 cores for anti-virus software
* 25 cores for the ransomware battling it out with the anti-virus
* 55 cores for Microsoft's Win10 update nagware
* 350 cores for the NSA monitoring
* 122 cores for the FBI monitoring
* 75 cores to handle syncing all your data to the cloud
* 94 cores to run the 3D GUI based desktop
* 62 cores for constant advertising
* 14 cores for Google to keep tabs on what you're doing
* 1 core dedicated to emacs
So, only 2 cores left for the user. No better than an Athlon from 2005, I'm afraid.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
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