1000-Core Processor Developed, Handles 5 GB Of Data Per Second

Scientists have now invented a new-age ultra-fast processor that does 1000-core processing on a single chip.

The newly developed computer chip is the world’s fastest processor on a single-chip. It is 20 times faster than current modern desktop computers and can smoothly munch on up to 5 gigabytes of data per second.

Computers these days usually have dual-core or quad-core processors. Not very often though, but we also hear of 16-core processors. Nevertheless, a thousand-core processor on a single chip is unheard of.

Reportedly, the chip contains more than 1,000 mini-circuits, each of which acts as a processing core to turn this single chip processor into a powerful 1,000-core beast. When tests were carried out, the processor was able to munch a whopping of 5GB data per second.

Dr. Wim Vanderbauwhede of the University of Glasgow and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Lowell designed this processor. Dr. Wim, who led the team hopes to present his work at the International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing in March next year was quoted as saying -

“This is very early proof-of-concept work where we’re trying to demonstrate a convenient way to program FPGAs so that their potential to provide very fast processing power could be used much more widely in future computing and electronics…I believe these kinds of processors will only become more common and help to speed up computers even further over the next few years.”


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