The Promise of Personal Supercomputers, but really what would it take to put thousands of microprocessors in cell phones and laptops?
The first programmable “terascale” supercomputer on a chip has been announced by Intel as a research project, crunching numbers at the rate of a trillion operations per second was a single chip with 80 cores demonstrated by Intel.
This research chip is one of Intel’s first steps toward massively multicore technology, but everyone agrees that it will not be an easy task to make consumer computers with hundreds of cores.
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