Sunday, 9 January 2011

1000-core processors will speed PCs for 20 times

Scottish scientists have made a 1000-core processor, and claim it will be 20 times faster than today's processors and will use less power energy.



 Dr. Wim Vanderbauwhede leads a research team at the University of Glasgow with the aim to create a futuristic processor with programmable chips called FPGAs (field programmable gate array). Instead of being constructed in the form of integrated circuits of conventional computer chips, these processors can be customized. In very demanding programming, the research team, for example, was able to share the processor core 1000, each had its own budget. To give you a broader picture of this, today's fastest processors on the market of consumer electronics, such as the Intel Core i7, have six cores. However, according to Daily Mail, 1000-core processor processes the 5 gigabytes of data per second, which is "20 times faster than modern computers. Scientists have each of these cores provide its own memory, making them even more accelerated, according to Mashable. Most interestingly, however, that they managed to influence the increase in speed without bothering to use more energy. Precisely because the FPGA's energy efficient, etc. Vanderbauwhede calls them "green option". Will we soon see these processors in laptops? Scientists will present their research at a symposium next March, but according to Vanderbauwheda "this type of processor will become habitual and will in the next few years more to speed up your computer.

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