Adapteva Announces 700 MHz, 4096-Core Processor
Adapteva's Epiphany chip is planned to be available in versions with just one core with a die size of 0.1 mm2 (28 nm) and 0.5 mm2 (65 nm), 16 cores (2.05 mm2 and 8.96 mm2 in 65 nm and 28 nm, respectively), 64 cores (8.2 mm2 in 28 nm), 256 cores (32.7 mm2 in 28 nm), 1,024 cores (131.1 mm2 in 28 nm) and 4,096 cores (524.3 mm2 in 28 nm). However, the company said that it has only built up to 16-core processors in actual silicon so far.
The single-core chip is said to deliver 2 GFlops at 1 GHz, while the 16-core processors provides up to 32 GFlops at 1 GHz. The 4,096-core version (700 MHz) is estimated to deliver 5.6 TFlops of sustained floating point performance while consuming only 80 watts.
There was no information about the availability of the Epiphany processors.
Supercomputers have absolutely unbelievable energy costs. Reducing energy consumption is one of the top priorities for people designing them.
Power is easy, efficiency is hard.
Crysis with mods is still one of the best looking games even today.
I know that its good to, but this seems to be an "all out" processor, so that should be secondary.
Supercomputers have absolutely unbelievable energy costs. Reducing energy consumption is one of the top priorities for people designing them.
Power is easy, efficiency is hard.
I remember Intel wanting to create a 128 core cpu, running at 1,6Ghz per core, and ~95W TDP.
In the future, these can be used for company servers, running 128 gigabit network connections, the size slightly larger than an external harddrive case, or a single rack unit!
For the home user, I'd love to see nettop sized computers having these 32/64/128 core processors in them! They'd make more than a bittorrent client with multi network connections, home theater, and personal PC!
Crysis with mods is still one of the best looking games even today.
Agree! It's a +/- 5 years old joke now,that crysis joke!
Now it's "Can it run WoW"....
>_>
It was/is a first person shooter that took unbelievable amounts of processing power to run in it's day. Even on the lowest levels it had a hard time reaching 60fps on gaming systems. Due to these rediculous requirements it became the de-facto standard by which computer hardware was measured for a very long time (well... a long time in computer years anyways). But now even medium level hardware can run Crysis maxed out, so the joke really no longer applies.
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About 800KW according to specs.
You can never have too much power!