Intel Produces 80 Core Processor
Intel has now created an 80 core processor, which is what they describe to be a “network of computers on a chip.” The article says that, at 3.16GHz, the chip achieves a data bandwidth of 1.62Tb/s and a floating-point performance of 1.01TFlops, but what is even more amazing, is that the chip, at that clock, is running at 0.95 volts and consumes a mere 62 watts of energy (compare that to AMD’s new 64-bit X2 6000+ that, under max capacity, uses 125 watts Source). That’s like turning a lamp on! They managed to squeeze 1.8TFlops out of it when they clocked it higher, but power consumption soared to 265 watts. Still, if you take 202 of these processors (equal to that of the BlueGene supercomputer), the power consumption will be much, much less.
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