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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

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

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

IBM was commissioned to fabricate the processor in 32 nm CMOS. It is claimed that the device "can execute 115 billion instructions per second while dissipating only 0.7 watts."

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