Researchers Create 1000-Core Computer Processor [PCs]

A team of computer researchers have managed to squeeze an immense 1000 separate cores into a new sort of CPU, resulting in what they expect to be a 20-fold increase in current performance.

The alternate processor is built around existing Field Programmable Gate Array technology, a sort of transistor management that lets the user define roles for groups of circuits and allocate them individual tasks-creating many manageable, switchable cores on the fly.

Dr Wim Vanderbauwhede from the University of Glasgow and a team at the University of Massachusetts Lowell created the CPU, which in addition as being faster, may be more energy-efficient and greener. It’s virtually magic, but only ” very early proof-of-concept work” presently. [ Daily Mail ]

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