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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: 2) by Zinho on Wednesday June 22 2016, @02:49PM

    by Zinho (759) on Wednesday June 22 2016, @02:49PM (#363859)

    So, per this article "MIPS" is well and truly obsolete as a baseline for chip performance. I guess we could go with "MegaMIPS" for 1 trillion instructions/sec; however, I have a more elegant proposal. Let's extend the nomenclature such that 1 billion instructions per second is "BIPS", and 1 trillion instructions per second is "TrIPS".

    Anyone with me?

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  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday June 22 2016, @04:41PM

    by turgid (4318) on Wednesday June 22 2016, @04:41PM (#363901) Journal

    They don't call it Marketing's Idea of Processor Speed for nothing, you know.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 04 2016, @03:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 04 2016, @03:55AM (#369423)
    Why not GIPS (giga-instructions per second) or TIPS (tera-instructions per second), using SI prefixes? They're used in GFLOPS and TFLOPS for floating point operations by the way.