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02-12-2007, 10:18 AM
Link (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/16677437.htm)
Intel Corp. has designed a computer chip that promises to do as many calculations as quickly as an entire data center - while consuming as much energy as a light bulb.
The world's biggest chipmaker said Sunday it developed a programmable processor that can perform about a trillion calculations per second, or deliver a performance of 1.01 Teraflops. It accomplishes this feat while consuming 62 watts of power when the chip is running at a frequency of 3.16 gigahertz.
A similarly powerful supercomputer in 1996 at Sandia National Laboratories took up more than 2,000 square feet, used nearly 10,000 Pentium Pro processors, and consumed more than 500 kilowatts of electricity.
Intel Corp. has designed a computer chip that promises to do as many calculations as quickly as an entire data center - while consuming as much energy as a light bulb.
The world's biggest chipmaker said Sunday it developed a programmable processor that can perform about a trillion calculations per second, or deliver a performance of 1.01 Teraflops. It accomplishes this feat while consuming 62 watts of power when the chip is running at a frequency of 3.16 gigahertz.
A similarly powerful supercomputer in 1996 at Sandia National Laboratories took up more than 2,000 square feet, used nearly 10,000 Pentium Pro processors, and consumed more than 500 kilowatts of electricity.