Princeton University researchers presented a 25-core "manycore" CPU at the Hot Chips conference:
It was a week for chip launches with the Hot Chips conference setting the stage for the unveiling of the IBM Power9 processor (report forthcoming) and a custom ARM-based 64-core CPU from Chinese firm Phytium Technology. A 25-core academic manycore processor out of Princeton University also made its debut from the Silicon Valley event.
[...] "With Piton, we really sat down and rethought computer architecture in order to build a chip specifically for data centers and the cloud," said David Wentzlaff, a Princeton assistant professor of electrical engineering and associated faculty in the Department of Computer Science in an official announcement. "The chip we've made is among the largest chips ever built in academia and it shows how servers could run far more efficiently and cheaply."
Piton is based on the SPARC V9 64-bit ISA and supports Debian Linux. After being designed in early 2015, Piton was taped-out in IBM's 32nm SOI process. The 6×6 millimeter die has more than 460 million transistors. The silicon has been tested in the lab and is working, according to the research team.
The design is open source (open, DOI: 10.1145/2954679.2872414) (DX). More information here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @10:58AM
Then I would buy one or two and stick a label with capital letters: WINDOWS IS INCAPABLE TO RUN THIS COMPUTER
Can't you already do that with most (if not all) computers running RISC processors?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @02:08PM
Unless you go back in time and get older versions of NT that supported other architectures like MIPS and Alpha.
And of course win 10 will run on ARM.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @10:43PM
Do you have that running?
...or are you repeating scuttlebutt you've heard?
My sources [google.com] say it's still vaporware.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Sunday August 28 2016, @05:15AM
I was close to modding you up, but I checked Wikipedia's references:
- Windows RT Is Dead, But Microsoft Hasn't Learned [pcmag.com]
I got an interstitial when I copied that quote >.>