Monday, February 26, 2007

Tera FLOPS in your next PC

Intel fabs 80-core teraflop processor, its a concept for the 32 nm era (maybe few years to come), 3.1 GHz and 20 MB SRAM on each core. Read here
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/26/intel_teraflop_processor/

Japanese boffins show off 512-core chip, 500 MHz cores on a 300 Million transistor 17 mm x 17 mm die, promise 2 TFLOP in 2008. Read here
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/11/06/japan_512-core_co-pro/

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

With this amount of memory (20MB) who needs an add-on RAM. Oops I forgot, it is Microsoft Windows that will need more (1GB just for booting :) ).
- Wesam

Dr. Taisir Eldos said...

I understand where you are coming from, but 80 times 20 MB is good even for an MS software

Dr. Taisir Eldos said...

I understand where you are coming from, but 80 times 20 MB is good even for an MS software