The scientists have developed d a microchip, named KiloCore that has 1000 independent programmable processors.
The microchip is the world’s first 1,000-processor chip and has the highest clock-rate processor ever designed at the university level.
Key Points
KiloCore microchip has been designed by a team scientist from the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
It contain around 621 million transistors and was fabricated by tech giant IBM using their 32 nm (nanometre) CMOS technology.
It is the most energy-efficient chip which has maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second.
It can execute around 115 billion instructions per second by dissipating only 0.7 Watts of energy.
Each core processor on the chip is independently programmable and runs an average maximum clock frequency of 1.78 GHz.
It has potential to save energy when not needed as each processor is independently clocked and it can shut itself down.
Applications: Wireless coding/decoding, Video processing and Encryption etc.
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