Fujitsu Claims World's Fastest CPU

[Marcus Yam]

Fujitsu shows off one smoking fast processor.

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[gamerjames]

I want one please.

 

[TheFace]

If that is an actual picture of the CPU, that thing is massive.

Also, if anyone remarks "but can it run.." they should be banhammered.

 

[piper5177]

How much?

 

[matic3060]

But can it run Cry...er...oh, nevermind.

 

[chris13th]

[citation][nom]TheFace[/nom]If that is an actual picture of the CPU, that thing is massive.Also, if anyone remarks "but can it run.." they should be banhammered.[/citation]
you mean Crysis?

 

[buzznut]

How fast? 128 Gflops isn't even twice as fast as the Xeon mentioned. sounds kinda lame to me.

 

[Guest]

I wanna see the mobo it goes with...

 

[exit2dos]

we all know that there are super computer chips that are capable of much more than what we have on our desktops.

Sparc is a RISC chip, and for most desktop users an x86 CPU could do more with "only" 76 GFLOPs than a Sparc with 128 GFLOPs.

By all means, congratulations to Fujitsu, this is quite an accomplishment - but let's not confuse people by comparing RISC to x86 in performance or power consumption as it is by no means apples-to-apples.

 

[DXRick]

Hmmm... If Fujitsu can make that one, why aren't they making other desktop CPUs???

 

[IronRyan21]

Damn, just get a dual socket mobo with two XEON Nehalems. None of this fujitsu S**T. Probably be cheaper than a sh fujhujistsu cpu anyways.

 

[stradric]

[citation][nom]DXrick[/nom]Hmmm... If Fujitsu can make that one, why aren't they making other desktop CPUs???[/citation]

It's RISC or Reduced Instruction Set. Which basically means it sucks for multimedia applications and all that fun stuff that people do on their home PCs. The processing pipeline is much smaller and far less complicated than that of our x86/x64 processors. So, in other words, it would be quite a more difficult task to take on Intel and AMD with regard to consumer CPUs. An undertaking that would almost certainly cost Fujitsu more money than its worth.

 

[hunter315]

If it really does what they claim that would make for one kick ass super computer that wont generate massive amounts of heat, now we just have to wait for that to show up for a desktop.

 

[danimal_the_animal]

What-eva

just get a intel quad and overclock it......there you GO!

 

[cl_spdhax1]

I bet it cost 10x more than the higher-end Intel or AMD cpu also.

 

[Guest]

its for processing raw data not for consumer uses..

 

[berk98]

I must be missing something, but I do remember my 8800GT being capable of 500GFlops or so.

EMBRACE THE GPGPU!

And yes, my 8800GT can play crysis

 

[NuclearShadow]

This is preciously what I need to achieve my world domination plans! My minions will be there to pick it up shortly.

 

[Ciuy]

i got 2 of those CPU`s under my bed somewhere ....

 

[starryman]

It is interesting to see how the CPU is 2.5X larger. Must provide better cooling OR it require more cooling. It's cool to see another player in the CPU world. It gets dull hearing the only two contenders AMD and Intel. Same thing with AMD/ATI and Nvidia. We need more teams.

 

[sublifer]

This is preciously what I need to achieve my world domination plans!

preciously? Do we have a gollum complex today or did you mean precisely? Not to flame but I think its funny

 

[Cache]

Give it two years, and we'll all look at that thing as if it was a Pentium III.

 

[DXRick]

[citation][nom]stradric[/nom]It's RISC or Reduced Instruction Set. Which basically means it sucks for multimedia applications and all that fun stuff that people do on their home PCs. The processing pipeline is much smaller and far less complicated than that of our x86/x64 processors. So, in other words, it would be quite a more difficult task to take on Intel and AMD with regard to consumer CPUs. An undertaking that would almost certainly cost Fujitsu more money than its worth.[/citation]

Good points. No "MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4, EM64T". They would also need to get licenses from Intel and AMD for the x86 and other techs.

 

[Hanin33]

eh... exit2dos has it right, this is a RISC arch developed for a specific purpose... FP calculations! sorry to tell the intel lubbers this... but even after considering the overhead and other crap necessary to get a RISC chip to run stuff as well as a x86/CISC chip, it wouldn't perform half as bad as the x86/CISC chip would trying to emulate the raw FP performance of fujitsu's SPARC chip... but that is the nature of these chips and why they're designed for specific reasons.

 

[ravenware]

So...does Fujitsu manufacture them and then sun just sells them in server equipment?