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1000-core MIMD Microprocessor Built

posted by takyon on Wednesday June 22 2016, @05:38AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday June 22 2016, @12:51PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday June 22 2016, @12:51PM (#363819) Journal

    On a more serious note, I am sure the GPU will one day disappear into the CPU and we come full circle back to software rendering.

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