Researchers at the University of California have designed a 1,000-core processor, which IBM fabricated using 32nm CMOS technology.
The “KiloCore” chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second, contains 621 million transistors, and is energy-efficient.
Each processor is independently clocked, and can shut itself down to save energy when not needed, said its makers.
The researchers said the 1,000 processors can execute 115 billion instructions per second while dissipating only 0.7 Watts.
It uses such low power, a single AA battery is enough to run it.
“It is the world’s first 1,000-processor chip and it is the highest clock-rate processor ever designed in a university,” said Bevan Baas.
Applications developed for the chip include wireless coding/decoding, video processing, and encryption.
Other programs involving large amounts of parallel data, such as scientific data applications and data centre record processing, have also been developed.
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