If you were wowed by Intel’s recently released 10-core desktop processor, you’ll likely appreciate the efforts of a team of researchers at the University of California, who created what they claim to be the first 1,000-core processor.
Officially unveiled at the 2016 Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Honolulu on June 16, the KiloCore chip contains 621 million transistors and maxes out at 1.78 trillion instructions per second.
“To the best of our knowledge, it is the world’s first 1,000-processor chip and it is the highest clock-rate processor ever designed in a university,” team leader Bevan Baas said in a statement. Read more…
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