Scientists at the University of Texas say they've developed a new type of general-purpose computer processor that could crunch data at speeds of trillions of calculations per second. (That's teraflops to your propeller-beanie types.)
The TRIPS processor, which, despite the name, has nothing to do with Jerry Garcia, subverts traditional chip designs that force data to be parsed one bit at a time. Instead, the new processor can parse information in chunks. Each chip can handle 16 operations per cycle, with up to1,024 instructions in play simultaneously.
The design could represent a more flexible approach than the current dodge to Moore's Law, stacking multiple cores of a slower processor to make a slightly faster processor. "EDGE technology offers an alternative approach when the race to multicore runs out of steam," said UT professor Stephen Keckler
New Computer Processor Has The Potential Of Reaching Trillions Of Calculations Per Second [Science Daily]
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