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1000-core MIMD Microprocessor Built

posted by takyon on Wednesday June 22 2016, @05:38AM   
from the more-core dept.

butthurt writes:

Motherboard reports on a press release by the University of California Davis, where researchers designed a multiple instruction, multiple data (MIMD) microprocessor. Unlike a GPU, each core can run distinct instructions on distinct data.

According to the researchers the chip has a greater number of cores than any other "fabricated programmable many-core [chip]," exceeding the 336 cores of the Ambric Am2045, which was produced commercially.

IBM was commissioned to fabricate the processor in 32 nm partially depleted silicon-on-insulator (PD-SOI). It is claimed that the device can "process 115 billion instructions per second while dissipating only 1.3 watts." or, when operating at greater supply voltage and clock rate, "execute 1 trillion instructions/sec while dissipating 13.1 W."

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• Re:So many core So useful Re:So many core So useful (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 22 2016, @07:12AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 22 2016, @07:12AM (#363746)

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• Re:So many core So useful (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 22 2016, @02:13PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 22 2016, @02:13PM (#363853)

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• Re:So many core So useful (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday June 22 2016, @11:48PM

  by Bot (3902) on Wednesday June 22 2016, @11:48PM (#364093) Journal

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