This is the world’s first 1,000-core processor

Jun20

by Sindy Cator on June 20, 2016 at 5:23 am

Posted In: 1000-core processor, Around the Web, Gadgets, Microchip, UC Davis

I’ve stopped caring about hardware specifications in today’s personal gadgets because they seem to matter less and less lately. But if you’re working on complex tasks like encryption, you’ll need all the firepower you can get your hands on. That’s why a team of researchers at University of California, Davis, designed a microchip with 1,000 processors that can each run independently. It’s called the KiloCore. The chip is capable of tackling 1.78 trillion instructions per second, which the team believes makes it the highest clock-rate processor ever designed in a university. IBM manufactured it using an older 32nm CMOS process than…