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Intel designs chip capable of more than a trillion calculations a second | CP
Intel designs chip capable of more than a trillion calculations a second
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Intel Corp. has designed a computer chip that promises to perform calculations as quickly an entire data centre - while consuming as much energy as a light bulb.
The world's biggest chipmaker said Sunday it developed a programmable processor that can perform about one trillion calculations a second, or deliver a performance of 1.01 teraflops. It accomplishes this feat while consuming 62 watts of power when the chip is running at a frequency of 3.16 gigahertz.
A similarly powerful supercomputer in 1996 at Sandia National Laboratories took up more than 180 square metres, used nearly 10,000 Pentium Pro processors and consumed more than 500 kilowatts of electricity.
Intel designs chip capable of more than a trillion calculations a second | CP
Intel designs chip capable of more than a trillion calculations a second
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Intel Corp. has designed a computer chip that promises to perform calculations as quickly an entire data centre - while consuming as much energy as a light bulb.
The world's biggest chipmaker said Sunday it developed a programmable processor that can perform about one trillion calculations a second, or deliver a performance of 1.01 teraflops. It accomplishes this feat while consuming 62 watts of power when the chip is running at a frequency of 3.16 gigahertz.
A similarly powerful supercomputer in 1996 at Sandia National Laboratories took up more than 180 square metres, used nearly 10,000 Pentium Pro processors and consumed more than 500 kilowatts of electricity.