Intel shows off its Knights Corner one teraflop chip (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

Intel has developed an accelerator chip capable of running at speeds of one teraflop, equal to one trillion calculations per second.

The firm showed off the chip, dubbed Knights Corner, on a test machine at a supercomputing conference in Seattle.
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The chip pits Intel against rival add-on processors from Nvidia and AMD.

Powerful computers

The Knights Corner chip acts as a co-processor - taking over some of the most complicated tasks from the computers central processing unit (CPU).

It packs more than 50 cores - or individual processors - onto a single piece of silicon.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15758057

[sakabatou]

1. So... it looks like it's about as big as a cell phone

But damn, that chip is fucking awesome.