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The 80 core chip...
Written by Paradis (13-02-2007)
 The first time teraflop performance was achieved was 11 years ago on the ASCI Red Supercomputer built by Intel for the Sandia National Laboratory. The machine took up more than 2,000 square feet, was powered by almost 10,000 Pentium Pro processors, and consumed more than 500 kilowatts of electricity.
Now, a chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflops) has been unveiled by Intel, only this one is the size of a fingernail. They now have to find a way to programme the cores simultaneously. The possible uses could include artificial intelligence, instant video communications, photo-realistic games and real-time speech recognition. And the chip consumes only 62 watts of electricity, making it very economical to use.
Of course, the Teraflops chip is not a commercial release yet, they need to work out how to power the cores independently before that can happen, but once it does, this will be a huge milestone for technology.
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