Intel has officially demonstrated a functioning 80 core prototype CPU capable of achieving 1 teraflop, or 1 trillion calculations per second. To put this in perspective, ten years ago it took an entire data center to achieve this level of processing power in the ASCI Red Supercomputer.
1 teraflop ASCI Red Supercomputer circa 1997...
...vs 1 teraflop CPU today(2007)...
Intel expects to be manufacturing a refined, commercialized, version of the 80 core, 1 teraflop, processor within the next five years. And so, Moore's Law marches on.
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