‘KiloCore’, world’s first microchip with 1,000 independent processors has been created by a team of scientists from the US who claim it is the world’s fastest chip ever designed at a university. The chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors.
We have listed few things that you need to know about the chip:
Designing Team:A team at the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering designed this microchip.
‘Energy-efficient’Bevan Baas, professor at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), the team lead, claimed that the chip is the most energy-efficient. For instance, the 1,000 processors can execute 115 billion instructions per second while dissipating only 0.7 Watts, low enough to be powered by a single AA battery.
Each processor core can run its own programThe microchip is fundamentally a more flexible approach than the Single-Instruction-Multiple-Data approaches utilised by processors such as graphics processing unit (GPU) and thus, each processor core can run its own small program independently of the others. As each processor is independently clocked, it can shut itself down to further save energy.
Fabricated by IBMKiloCore has been fabricated by IBM using its 32nm CMOS technology where each processor core can run its own small programme independently of the others.
Core’s clock-speedKiloCore operates at an average maximum clock frequency of 1.78 GHz and transfers data directly to each other rather than using a pooled memory area.
The best part about KiloCore is that the chip executes instructions more than 100 times more efficiently than a modern laptop processor.
Applications are availableThe already developed applications for the chip include wireless coding/decoding, video processing, encryption, and others involving large amounts of parallel data such as scientific data applications and data centre record processing.
We have listed few things that you need to know about the chip:
Designing Team:A team at the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering designed this microchip.
‘Energy-efficient’Bevan Baas, professor at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), the team lead, claimed that the chip is the most energy-efficient. For instance, the 1,000 processors can execute 115 billion instructions per second while dissipating only 0.7 Watts, low enough to be powered by a single AA battery.
Each processor core can run its own programThe microchip is fundamentally a more flexible approach than the Single-Instruction-Multiple-Data approaches utilised by processors such as graphics processing unit (GPU) and thus, each processor core can run its own small program independently of the others. As each processor is independently clocked, it can shut itself down to further save energy.
Fabricated by IBMKiloCore has been fabricated by IBM using its 32nm CMOS technology where each processor core can run its own small programme independently of the others.
Core’s clock-speedKiloCore operates at an average maximum clock frequency of 1.78 GHz and transfers data directly to each other rather than using a pooled memory area.
The best part about KiloCore is that the chip executes instructions more than 100 times more efficiently than a modern laptop processor.
Applications are availableThe already developed applications for the chip include wireless coding/decoding, video processing, encryption, and others involving large amounts of parallel data such as scientific data applications and data centre record processing.
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