Researchers Create CPU With 1,000 Cores

[Scott2010au]

5 GB/sec is nothing for a CPU, although for a field programmable unit I suppose it's not too bad.

Today processors are moving 512 GB/sec - 1 TB/sec internally.

We've got RAM doing 128 GB/sec, and have for years, using a 256-bit 'bus'.

Plus Intel and others beat them to the punch...

 

[Scott2010au]

Quote: "A woman sits in front of a slow-running laptop. The chip developed by the researchers was able to process around five gigabytes of data per second in testing - making it approximately 20 times faster than modern computers."

+ Most consumers who are dealing with a slow PC just need a SSD, especially those on notebooks with 2.5" or 1.8" HDD's at under 7200 rpm.

So they honestly think that 'modern computers' can only process 256 MB (yes megabytes) per second.

This is a complete farce, field programmable units are always ***at least*** 36 *****behind***** current leading edge semiconductor technology.

1,000 cores would process most workloads even more slowly, as each core only has 0.1% (max, cache excluded) of the transistor (and other) resources dedicated to it.

 

[eodeo]

How do these 1000 cores differ from 800 cores in my 100$ 4850 GPU or from 5780's 1600 cores?

I'd like to know whats so special about it? Can it run x86 instructions? Seams like it cant either...

 

[amoghthegamer]

Nice but will it blend?

 

[eddieroolz]

God imagine how large the chip will be!

 

[Guest]

super fast ! www.GlasgowComputers.com When all home computing becomes this fast it will be fantastic.