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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 partially depleted silicon-on-insulator (PD-SOI [advancedsubstratenews.com]). It is claimed [ucdavis.edu] 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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